The amazing Sarah J. Maas has done it again, fresh, new and bold. Aside from what you can read for yourself on the inside flap, I can tell you this book and our heroine Feyre is entirely disparate from Celenea and the Throne of Glass series. Try to set aside any remnants of the Throne of Glass before you begin A Court of Thorns and Roses. Feyra is illiterate but highly intelligent and her ability to adapt and survive makes up for her lack of formal education. She lives in poverty within a mortal lands. She hunts deep in the forest everyday to provide for her crippled, cowardly useless father and her two ungrateful insubordinate sisters. One day she kills what she wants to believes is a wolf but in actuality is a shape shifting High Fae who has crossed the invisible wall into the mortal territory. The High Lord of the spring court Tamlin discovers his friend dead and goes after her to claim her life debt. She is afraid, of course, she has been told since birth horror stories regarding the fae, but she braves it and goes along with him to his estate within the spring court, all the while clinging to the tiny filament of hope that she may escape. Yet soon enough it is clear that Tamlin is a far cry from the monsters she was told about. In fact he is a perfect gentleman and undeniably sexy. Feyre lives luxuriously and soon falls in love with Tamlin. But not all the stories she grew up with were untrue. A great threat and danger are about and growing stronger everyday. Feyre, as fragile and human as she is, wants to help and is willing to do anything to save Tamlin and and all of Prythian from this horrific blight that is slowly devouring everything. Five stars.