Book Club Ep 1:
ACOTAR:
It’s been a while. I won’t lie I’ve recently been finding it hard to set aside time for writing. Even though I’m not at uni right now, and doing basically nothing with my days, I still feel stretched for time!
So, I thought to get back into the swing of things, I’d launch a new segment. Welcome to Book Club.
My friends and I love when we’ve read the same book and can sit and have a good chat about the characters, plot and what we’re jumping into next. So I thought we could re-cap some books together and even create a joint TBR (to be read).
Today’s choice of book is ACOTAR, the first book of Sarah J Mass’ viral fantasy series. From now on there WILL be spoilers, read at your own risk.
Grab a cup of tea and a snack, and lets dive into a speed run through…
The Book- a really quick run through:
Before I read ACOTAR it’s no secret that the whole fantasy genre was a big no go for me. I liked the little, small town romances where not much really went off. After weeks of hearing the hype, and denying it was for me, I caved in and purchased Book One. A Court of Thorns and Roses.
My thought process was as follows: buy just the one, don’t get the series yet because I bet it won’t be for you… I’m now three books deep and Throne of Glass? That’s the next on my TBR.
Let’s start at the beginning, the world building and character descriptions hooked me right away. I did no research before hand so really did go into the series blind.
The main character Feyre is one of three girls and lives with both sisters and her dad. When her mum died, she asked Feyre to look after her family, a big responsibility for young Feyre to take on!
The family live in a village that’s awfully close to “the wall” that splits the human realm from the fairie realm. Ok , so bare with me… it’s more like muscular, powerful men/women as opposed to a “fairy” as you might imagine.
Skipping to Feyre (pronounced fay-ruh btw not fey-er!) killing Andras, who she saw to be a wolf, and skinning and selling his fur to feed her family. Turns out Feyre just killed a fairie… bad move.
Here we meet Tamlin, he rips into Feyre’s home and offers her a life in Prythian (fairie realm) or death. What does she choose?
Pythian it is.
The whole book follows Feyre and her love journey with Tamlin, the challenges they face and the torture she endures in order to free Tamlin and Pythian from Aramantha’s curse. The last few chapters really had me worried, turning each page not knowing what was next.
A big part of the book is set ‘under the mountain’ and sees Feyre face three trials, all equally as tense. Here we also meet Rhys, but I’ll save him for book 2.
It was definitely a big change to what I’m used to, but the plot twists? The emotional rollercoaster? The relationships both romantic and platonic?
One of the reasons I loved this book so much is because I thought I always needed a “happily ever after”. A few reviews do claim how they had to power through this one, but in all honesty I probably got through this book quicker than any other I’ve read.
If there is one thing to convince you to read this book, ACOMAF (A Court of Mist and fury, BOOK 2) is the BEST book I have ever read. The only reason this is 4 stars, is because ACOMAF is a 5.