A Court of Thorns and Roses book cover by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

Adult • Romance
Feyre's kill awakens a faerie Love blossoms amidst danger Ancient evil threatens the realm Feyre adapts to magical challenges Captivity leads to complex feelings

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.

At least, he's not a beast all the time.

As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever.

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Book details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date
2020
Print length
451 pages
Language
en
ISBN
9781635575569

Romance

Reader guide

What to Know Before Reading A Court of Thorns and Roses

The story centers on Feyre Archeron, a 19-year-old human huntress who takes on the brutal burden of keeping her impoverished family from starving. While hunting in the bleak woods near the magical wall that separates the human realm from the faerie land of Prythian, she kills a massive wolf to secure a hide. Unbeknownst to her, the wolf was actually a shapeshifted faerie. Because she broke a ancient, centuries-old treaty, a terrifying, golden beast-like creature crashes into her home demanding retribution: a life for a life. To save her family, Feyre agrees to cross the wall and live out her days captive in Prythian.

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About the author

Sarah J. Maas

Sarah J. Maas

SARAH J. MAAS is the #1 bestselling author of the Court of Thorns and Roses, Throne of Glass, and Crescent City series. Her books have sold more than seventy-five million copies and are published in forty languages.
A favorite quote

““Be glad of your human heart, Feyre. Pity those who don’t feel anything at all.””

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