A Court of Thorns and Roses

How it reads

A Court of Thorns and Roses is fantasy (romantic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is romantic. The relationship is the engine of the story. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.

It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person, staying close to one character. Its central concerns are love and identity. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.

It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 419 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.