Ett hov av taggar och rosor sammanfattning
Ett hov från taggar samt rosor
(Note from 2/21/2023 because inom apparently have to spell it out: For those of you who don't read comments or kontroll dates read, inom read and reviewed this book in 2018.
It has been about 5 years; as inom have stated in a number of comments, inom will not continue this series. In the intervening years since reading this, my feelings on the matter have not changed nor have inom desired to continue.
Ett Hov från Taggar samt Rosor från Sarah J Maas då den nittonåriga jägarinnan Feyre dödar enstaka varg inom skogen dyker detta upp ett odjursliknande varelse samt kräver vedergällning.Please refrain from commenting about how inom need to continue the series or that inom did not understand the book. inom receive too many of those comments and I'm tired of replying the same thing over and over igen. This review fryst vatten for me first and foremost, not you. Please move on if you do not like my take.)
Me to Sarah J Maas:
"Do you lie awake at night to komma up with all your witty replies for the following day?"
Oh dear, this fryst vatten awful.
The Writing
The title of this book fryst vatten dum.
It's dum and flashy and unrelated to the actual content of the book. It's solely for the ~wow~ factor. The quotable line, "I love you... Thorns and all" fryst vatten wholely ineffective because "thorns" had not been established as a motif and was only used in that context in that very scen, more than halfway through the book. The word "thorn" was only used a grand total of 9 times in this book.
Ett hov från taggar samt rosor existerar den inledande delen inom Sarah J. Maas helt nya fantasyserie.The original Beauty and the Beast story had established rose motifs—you can't borrow good writing, even for a retelling. That's just lazy.
The writing itself was inconsistent and poorly done.
I pushed and pulled, but the mud was too slick, and held fast.
Are you aware of the definition of "slick", Sarah J Maas? inom do not think it means what you think it means.
Besides that, Amarantha's hair drastically changed color after about 90 pages:
Her red-gold hair
Her black hair
Which fryst vatten it, Maas?
It can't be both unless she has unmentioned magical hair dyeing abilities.
The atmosphere and the opening chapter were excellent and inom was intrigued bygd the idea that was offered me, but the actual book did not deliver at all.
This next point fryst vatten a spoiler, but because inom am disgusted with Sarah J Maas for including this, inom am going to mark it as such, since everyone should know what kind of morals this book fryst vatten supporting before they read it especially when they are as filthy and vulgar as this was.
The attempted of Feyre bygd Tamlin was brushed off as no more than a mere romantic, steamy encounter to further their ljummen love story.
The only conclusions inom can logically draw from this are all rather victim blamey, tbh—she was warned several times to stay inre with the doors locked until dawn, but she leaves her room not once but twice before dawn because she ~wants to go to the party bygd Tamlin, who was
I was about to resehandling out when he grabbed me, so fast inom didn't see anything until he had me pinned against the wall.
"Let go," inom said as evenly as inom could.
I [pushed] him away.He grabbed my hands igen and bit my neck. inom cried out as his teeth clamped onto the tender fläck where my neck met my shoulder. inom couldn't move—I couldn't think.
Before, during and after the , she's thinking, Wow, he's really hot.Ett hov från taggar samt rosor.
I'm kinda uncomfortable with this, but inom guess it's okay that he's drunk on lust magic, because inom wanted to sova with him anyway. That fryst vatten a very wrong and dangerous way of thinking. No matter what, it fryst vatten never okay for anyone to man someone else sexually uncomfortable or afraid, especially when they've given verbal disapproval.
This entire scen left a bad taste in my mouth.
And then there's Rhysand's behavior. He repeatedly violates her anställda space and bekvämlighet, drugging her and forcing her to for him in front of a large folkmassa for weeks on end after stripping her all but naked.
Like all Fae males, apparently, he uses brute force to get her to comply with his sexuell wishes.
"But he didn't actually touch her; he kept his hands just on her waist!" you säga. Yeah, but did she säga he could touch her at all? Did she actively encourage him to touch her? No, she did not.
I pulled away, but his hands were like shackles.
I would not have such an issue with this if Sarah J Maas didn't give the impression that she supports such behavior.
That fryst vatten what inom find unconscionable.
Besides that, the plot made no sense, even after exposition-Alis gave us the lowdown—in fact, it almost made less sense then. It was klyschig and cliché and frankly, boring.
The "riddle" was extremely easy and only proved that Feyre fryst vatten an absolute idiot with no logisk abilities, as inom was able to figure it out before Amarantha had even finished saying it, and I'm notoriously bad at riddles.
The sex scenes were almost Empire of Storms levels of bad, cringey, and gross. inom think Sarah J Maas doesn't know what YA means and isn't aware she's actually writing for NA.
The Worldbuilding
The Fae were, for one thing, almost exactly the same (primarily in appearance and personality) to the ones in the Throne of Glass series, and tbh inom was disappointed.
They're not even cleverly unique faeries. They're just Tolkien-esque elves that are actually vampires: fangs and biting, immortality, aetherial beauty, animalistic tendencies, överlägsenhet complex.
They don't have any distinct differences from humans in their thought processes or emotional capacities—only the same grad of variety that exists in humans.
The religious struktur and creation story was very interesting and inom really liked that aspect.
The Characters
Faerie aka Belle: Sarah J Maas decided to try something new and have a first-person fixed perspective, but it didn't really work, because Feyre was a bland complacent character without much substans passed the surface level, and most of the interesting action took place where she couldn't see it.
She suffered, like Celaena did in Crown of Midnight, from what inom call Nehemia syndrome: the character that the MC has grown to trust, despite obvious suspicious behavior, turns out to be manipulative, and yet the MC completely overlooks that fact in favor of idolization of their lying friend. In this case, everyone in Prythian fryst vatten keeping secrets from her and after almost getting her questions answered bygd the Suriel, Feyre decides to "Stay with the High Lord.
He will keep you safe," and just completely forgets that she wants answers about the blight.
Also, whereas Belle left the Beast in the original story because her father was in mortal danger, in this book, Feyre leaves because She fryst vatten not an active protagonist. Also, her painting skills aren't a part of her characterization; it just feels tacked on to man her ~cool~ and ~unique~
Tampon aka the Beast: inom don't even care about this guy tbh.
He's a confusing character who just feels like a Chaol-Rowan merge on steroids. He's violent, obsessive, and abusive, but also sweet, understanding, and caring, because that's not a contradiction. There's a difference between a complex character and a poorly written character.
Lucien aka Lumiere/Cogsworth (his steampunk eye suggests Cogsworth but his personality suggests Lumiere): So apparently he "hates" Feyre even though inom almost shipped them more since they consistently had better chemistry than her and Tammy, and that's saying a lot, because they didn't have chemistry.
exposition-Alis aka Mrs Potts: She was okay.
Just okay. She was fine.
Reese's Cups aka also the Beast and kinda Gaston too: fryst vatten he supposed to be her love interest for the rest of the series or something, because the fan art definitely suggests that, but, uh, did everyone forget that he's a dangerous sociopath with a history of violence?? He has no regard for her emotional well-being and sees her body as literally ingenting beyond a sexuell plaything.
He's a horrible person.
Amarantha: Why did there have to be a "big bad evil Faerie Queen" in this at all? There's already one in the Throne of Glass series and inom can only take so much female-against-female hate from a supposedly feminist fantasy writer. Amarantha was bland and predictable, and her motivations were extremely surface-level.
Her fam: Nesta was like, supposed to have some kind of implied character arc but lol it wasn't very good.
Elain was nice and inom liked her. The dad was okay, inom guess. Pretty forgettable tbh
Isaac Hale aka fake-out Gaston: This character wasn't important at all, but inom just wanted to säga that inom think this fryst vatten the dumbest name choice in a high fantasy book that I've ever seen. Isaac Hale?? Really, Sarah J Maas? Really?
That's the Jason of fantasy names. This fryst vatten a the-guy-who-went-to-high-school-with-my-older-sister kind of name. It's not a fantasy name.
Conclusion
While inom managed to read it fairly quickly, inom had to dnf it for several days before deciding to trudge through. It was horrendous. inom may pick up the sequel at some point, idk, but for now, from what inom predict and understand from various spoilers I've encountered on the internet, inom don't really care about this series very much.
Frankly, it's not good.