Andrew Withers reviewed A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
Review of 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' on 'Goodreads'
1 star
I listened to the cinematic audiobook of this series from GraphicAudio, and let me just say - the GraphicAudio cast and production was literally the only reason I stuck around to listen to this "Wattpad Fanfiction" of a series.
What I expected (based offreviews):
An amazing fantasy with a good fae world ant great romance, as a twist of beauty and the beast - an older young adult fantasy to rival GOT.
What I got: A softcore erotica fanfiction...The writing was atrocious.
No world building (much, if at all), zero consequences for anything at all, literally deus ex machina ever reason and no reason at all! (Oh, a hundreds year old, trained, and strongest fae had difficulty breaking a spell - but the MC's normal human sister wasn't effected by the exact same because 'she didn't want too?' are you kidding me?¡), the MCs bowels contently being 'watery' any time she was nervous (omg, I wish I was kidding, but this line was related MULTIPLE times throughout the book - I swear the author made a bet with a friend to write in into the book as many times as she could). I never knew so many bones/muscles/joints/body parts could "bark".
The lack of actually showing us and just telling us stuff in the world, both human and far - stuff happened, but that stuff point was to just show us 1 piece of info and then never have a role to play again - there's no impact - everything is 'said' like it means something but we're nevermind actually 'shown' Why it means something other than the half a paragraph info dump.
I could go on, but I'm not much of a reviewer...maybe someday.
Basically, if you want a good fantasy romance with a fairy twist - you'd probably be better of reading AO3 fanfiction..