A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses series #1
(2015) 419 pages

When I had begun to read A Court of Thrones and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, I had high expectations due to the amount of praise it received from people. However, I found it to be quite boring. It moved at a slow pace throughout the whole story, and the main character seems to be your typical romance main character, making decisions that seemingly have no logic at all to them but making them anyways because the plot needs to move forward. The whole book features a lot of cliches, and I don’t really enjoy that, especially not in romance. A lot of the mysteries that make the book interesting at first are quickly solved by the author stating the backstories and such without any development throughout the whole book. This made it a little boring, since it would have been nice to see it be incorporated into the story for the reader to figure out. A lot of the elements of the story are childish and don’t make sense to me, so it’s not an immediate read that I would recommend to others. It isn’t as bad as people say, but it’s certainly not as good either. Overall this book is just okay, and it is suitable for people that like the conventional romance storyline with a typical main character and antagonist.