Throne of Glass Series by Sarah J. Maas Review

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For the past few months, I have been reading a lot. And I think many of you guys can tell I am doing this because of the number of reviews I’m currently putting out. Sorry about that, don’t worry, now I’m balancing my amount of reviews to other content. However, about a week ago, during the weekend, I spent all day reading the Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, which was *chef’s kiss*. I have no idea what it was about it, but I just couldn’t put the series down. I nearly pulled an all-nighter because I just wanted to read the series and forget that I had a quiz on Tuesday (although I didn’t end up doing that and went to bed).

The Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas stuck with me, even now as I’m writing this it’s still running through my head. I nearly didn’t want to read my current book because I couldn’t move on from the last book. But, I’m here to tell you today all about why I rated the whole Throne of Glass series 5 stars on Goodreads.

For starters, I was definitely in the right mindset reading this so late at night, so don’t worry, I remember details as to why I love this. First, character development!! I am a stickler for character development and characters in general. If your book has it, I’m a happy girl. But this series had a lot of it! I don’t mean one character had strong development; I mean a lot of the characters did, which is why this series made it so special. The multiple points of view were fabulous and sometimes a little confusing (but not enough for me to honestly dislike the various POV aspects of the books).

Also, who doesn’t like suspense? Because I LOVE suspense, especially when it comes to fantasy novels such as this. And what’s great about this series is that it’s long! And I mean some books are almost 600-900 pages. I believe the last book of the series, Kingdom of Ash, is 900 pages, but these pages are Bible thin pages, literally being able to see the words on the next page when holding up a single page. I love the small things in the story too, the detail to attention, everything from the details of physical character appearance, the world they live in, etc., is well written and some aspects can either make you tear up or make your mouth hurt from laughing or smiling too much. Because of these excellent developments within the story, these actions I just talked about all happened to me.

I can perhaps talk a lot about this story, mainly for how beautifully well it was written, but I would not for both our sake and me making sure I don’t reread it too soon. I positively recommend this series to you because of its compelling writing, twists, characters, story plot, etc., so please go check it out!

Go check out my Goodreads to see more reviews and even check out what I’m currently reading and more!!

Loves,

Veronica Chen

A Court of Thorns and Roses Series Review

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As I sit with the book beside my laptop, I must say I have quite a lot to say, so, let’s dive right in.

A Court of Thorns and Roses is a currently ongoing series and so far, I’m beyond shocked by my expectations. I realize I was meant to publish this a while ago, however due to the virus and everything around us ( this blog will be a virus free zone so this will be the only time I mention it), I’ve been doing online classes since my spring break. It’s going to be tough because I’m at home and while I have my books, I do feel very bored at times. However, this is a virus free zone so I’m going to get started.

I have been adjusting to online classes these past few weeks hence my lack of posting so I have actually finished the fourth book, A Court of Frost and Starlight, a few weeks ago. After a few weeks of not reading this series since it’s still being written, I’ve come to re-analyze my ratings I put on my Goodreads. Let’s get started in individual book ratings.

Book 1, A Court of Thorns and Roses, I originally rated a 4, however, it has recently been changed to a 3.5 (but of course Goodreads doesn’t do .5 so on Goodreads it is a 3). I decided to change it down to 3 stars because it wasn’t the writing, it’s just simply that I found it so very similar to Beauty and the Beast. I love Beauty and the Beast and when I first picked up this book (after having it on my shelf for many many months) I was loving it, hence 4 stars originally. However, now that I’ve read all 4 books that have been released, I realize, yes it shows character plot and lots of things were a WOW from me for a first book, I found that this was a weaker book amongst the series at the moment. BUT, please don’t take this as me hating this book. I did enjoy reading this and did indeed like this book to push me to finish the series. I was definitely in love with Feyre and events that happen towards the end really made me love her even more.

Book 2, A Court of Mist and Fury, was rated a solid 4 star. It was a great second book and I really enjoyed this. Her relationship development AND character development grew so much in this book I felt so proud of her. I much preferred this book over book 1 and I honestly, truthfully and honestly, nearly cried. As you may know from book 1, there are a lot of things that surely ( I am assuming) that inspired this series and book 1 was Beauty and the Beast. At the moment I do have ideas of all the book inspirations but don’t want to share them as perhaps it would be a spoiler so I’m not going to get into that. All in all, events in this book made me giddy and nearly cry.

Book 3, A Court of Wings and Ruin, was rated a 5 star because it was my favorite book by far! This book truly made me develop tears and nearly spilled them because of events that happen. I felt many emotions while reading this and I honestly wasn’t expecting to read the first 3 books so fast. There were some character moments that really shocked me and I was surprised to feel that way but it didn’t impact me that much because the plot was the one thing that really shocked me while reading this. I absolutely felt jumbled up after reading this book and loved it truly.

Lastly, Book 4, A Court of Frost and Starlight, was rated 2 stars. This book I was really excited for after reading the previous 3 books and was hoping that it would be just as good. It is the most recent book that is out and I was hoping that there would be events that would make reading this book worth it. But I was wrong. This book could have been written as an epilogue or a prologue in the last book or the next because I felt that it was pretty useless. Ok, maybe not in an epilogue or prologue but maybe a chapter or two, but as a whole book, definitely not worth it. While granted, it was nice to have a cool down with the previous plots and events that happened with the previous three books, I was really anticipating this read and I am so sad that I was left disappointed. I’m hoping that the next book, book 5 is so much better. Although this book flopped, I am excited to read book 5 because this series isn’t over and one bad book isn’t going to stop me from finishing this series!

I want to thank everyone for reading until the end! If you haven’t already read this series, I do suggest you read it. I do want everyone to know that this review was all my opinion. People who read this series have their own opinion and I would love to of course here all of these in the comments below. I’ll see you all next time!

Loves,

Veronica Chen