By Sarah J. Maas

Genre: Romance, Fantasy

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing

I would have to say that this was a slow book for me to get through. It had taken me months to get through the first part of its pages. I jumped on this Acotar band wagon because I was led to believe that the first book was like an off version to Beauty and the Beast. Which everyone who knows me, knows, I love the classical tale.

True to its word, in its own way, it sort of was like the classical tale, but it was so slow for me to even connect to the main character, Feyre, or even try to find a connection.

It starts out as a young huntress who goes out and tries to save her family from starvation. She comes across this gigantic wolf, what she thought was her family’s salvation was actually their doom. That night thinking of their possible happiness, in burst a terrifying creature demanding retribution for the killing of his friend’s death and for his pelt that was being sold.

So, he ends up taking Feyre to his lands where she learns of not only of his past but the past of her people as well. Between the people and the fairies. The longer that she is there the more she grows to have feelings for Tamlin, the “beast”, the High Lord that had taken her.

With every story there is always a bad, and with this one Feyre learns of Amarantha who is the High Queen of Prythian. Whom has imprisoned a lot of fae folks, including Rhysand. Which we will get to his beautiful soul later in a different blog post.

Moving on, So When Tamlin is “taken,” Feyre, then follows to rescue him but was found out by Amarantha. In order to save him, Feyre has to do three different tasks that were supposed to be impossible for most humans to do. But Amarantha knew Feyre’s weaknesses to which she uses then to her disadvantages.

You’ll have to read the book to figure out what those weaknesses were and who gave up those secretes.

All in all, this was a slow book for me until I got to the middle of the book then I was able to speed right through it.

Let me know down below as to what you think of the first book.