A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas · 2015
Beauty and the Beast retold with fae courts, war, and heat. The romantasy that launched a subgenre.
The case against
Book one is the toll you pay for the series: a slow Beauty and the Beast retread, a heroine who spends half the novel painting and pining, and a riddle you will solve the moment it is posed, though Feyre needs until the last chapter. Maas's prose tics (males, females, things being snarled and purred) start here and never leave.
Romance · the Pro canon
The case for it and the rest of the canon open with Pro.
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