#I'm read a court of thorns and roses by sara j maas

[timelessphoenix]

Does not make sense in my brain that Feyre doesn't know how to read or pronounce a bunch of different words and the book is written in fairly descriptive first person perspective.

Sounds a tad elitist, but congnitive dissonance is all it is. I understand that just because I can say the word "position" doesn't mean I can attach the sounds to the letters of the word when I read it on a page. But it's weird to be reading words like "crimson" from her perspective when she probably couldn't read it off a page herself. Also, she's lived in poverty for so long; does she realistically know a lot of the words she uses in her perspective? This comes up in the same chapter. "I searched for the word in the half-forgotten part of my mind. Mural. That's what it was (114)." But she's got no trouble meandering through the labyrinths of books both in front of her and on the mezzanine dangling above. Seems like Maas picks and chooses when Feyre does and doesn't know words she may (or may not) have heard and/or known in her small time as a wealthy kid. And "meandering" is a word you pick up almost exclusively by reading!! Who SAYS that in common speech??

It's just an aspect of Feyre's character that makes me think it'd be better if this was written in third person pov. Anyhoo. I keep writing this to avoid reading. Back to trucking through.

[dwellordream]

Maybe it's because I was too pretentious to read YA as a teenager and am thus ignorant...but who is Sara J Maas and why is everyone so salty about her? I wanna know what I'm missing.

Sarah J Maas famously wrote the Throne of Glass series, centered around assassin/secret princess Celaena and the A Court of Thorns and Roses series, centered around not like other girls extraordinaire turned fairy princess, Feyre. Both series are exceptionally poorly written, even for YA fantasy.

Both feature characters who are more cardboard cutout than human beings, endless hot guys with pointy ears and shiny hair who only care about aggro sex and soul mates, and every woman is skinny, beautiful, and somehow absurdly stupid.

SJM is one of the big name YA writers and she coasted to that fame on extremely cliche and outright offensive writing that depicts ‘loving’ relationships as ‘dominant oversexed guy aggressively pursues malnourished traumatized woman’, barely-there world building that wastes several great premises, and little to no characters of color who aren’t killed or shoved to the side to make room for more beautiful white people with high cheekbones and glossy hair.

Also, her erotica sucks. Like it’s laughably bad.

[bex-la-get]

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Hi friend! Hope you're doing well! 💙

From this ask list.

1) What book did you last read??

Ophelia by Lisa Klein

2) What book are you currently reading??

I'm currently reading two very different books.

1: Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

2: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sara J. Maas

I'm aware those are two drastically different books. Don't ask me how I'm reading them at the same time, I have no idea 😂

4) Is there a book that you think needs a bigger fandom??

I feel like I'm not a good judge about book fandoms, considering my knowledge is kind of limited. But I think The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows needs more hype. The movie was lovely but the book is incredible and deserves all the recognition it can get.

[cruelniklaus]

hi!! I voted for a Court of Thorns and Roses by Sara J Maas because I'm currently reading the last one and Amren is the best.

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