** spoiler alert ** 
 After hearing about this series for years now I finally picked up the first book. 
 And...I liked it. Mostly. 
 I may have even ended up loving it were it not for the fact that I already heard so much about a certain character (*cough* Rhys ;). People have been gushing over him for years so it completely threw me when a) he wasn't in that first installment for about 70% of the book and b) it was the love story of Feyre with someone else. I already know that this relationship is not going to last so I had a hard time getting emotionally invested in this story and Feyre and Tamlin's love story. Again, that's my own fault but because of that ACOTAR didn't have that much of an impact on me. I loved Lucien and I liked Tamlin just fine (even though he became a bit bland and colorless when the aforementioned other character took the stage ;) and Feyre is a strong, stubborn heroine that I have high hopes for in the other books. 
 I also really liked that it was basically Beauty and the Beast inspired. Since it's my favorite fairytale that little fact scored major points with me. 
 All in all a great start to a series that I kind of ruined for myself by listening to all of you gush about it for the last few years ;P. As is I would rate it 3 stars, just because I wasn't emotionally invested in the romance but since I just KNOW I would feel differently if I'd have read it right after release I'm rounding up to 4 stars. 
 PS: I'm still not sure if I'm glad or not that I already know about Feysand. I tend to fall in love with the "first guy" (with very few exceptions) so I'm not sure my petty heart would have given Rhys a chance. I guess we'll never find out LOL