Rating: 4/5 
 ***Minor spoilers*** 
 I saw this book on goodreads a while ago, and added it to my to read list without feeling a pressing need to get to it quickly. But after loving Throne of Glass I thought I would try Sarah J Maas's other series. She definitely did a great job with this, but I enjoyed Throne of Glass better. 
 A Court of Thorns and Roses is about a girl named Feyre (apparently pronounced Fey-ruh but I pronounced it Fey-er the entire book) whose family is now poor after losing their fortune. Feyre is the youngest and goes hunting to ensure her family has food on the table. Although Feyre is the reason her family continues to live, her sisters and father are all pretty ungrateful. It's winter, and Feyre is desperate for money and food to feed her family. When she spots a wolf in the woods, although knowing it could have been a faerie, she shoots it down to sell. Soon enough, Tamlin hunts down Feyre to bring her back to Prythian, the faerie lands, for breaking the Treaty by killing an innocent faerie. 
 While the story itself I found good, it took me a while to get into this. The first half seemed very slow and had very little action. Most of the time was spent building the relationship between Feyre and Tamlin. While I found the writing fantastic, I grew tired of reading about her everyday life. Things only began really picking up around two-thirds of the way into the book. After this point, though, I started REALLY loving it. There were more struggles and more action and I didn't see things coming. However, I did feel like all of the action and excitement was smushed into too small of a section in the book. I wish it would've started perhaps halfway through, because by the time I got to the action I was already a bit tired of the book. The last part definitely made up for it to me, though. 
 Overall, a great read however I enjoyed Throne of Glass better. This one was much slower than Throne of Glass, but I found this book's story more compelling since I love stories about Fae and how each author changes them to fit their story. I'd definitely recommend this if you enjoyed Maas's other writing, fantasy, or Fae. However, if you read it, bring some patience with you.