This book was everything I hoped for and more. It's a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, which as you'll recall is my favorite Disney Princess Movie. The book starts about a girl named Feyre who is taking care of her family as they have lost their fortune, their mother, and their father was violently rendered unable to work by bill collections. She is out hunting in the forest on a cold winter day and she shoots a wolf that turns out to be fae. Because of her actions she is taken by the fae lord Tamlin to live on his estate for the rest of her life to make up for killing a fae in faerie land. (It's called Prychian, but it's your typical Tír na nÓg / Otherwolrd / Annwn / Gwyn ap Nudd kind of place. I like fae mythology if you couldn't tell). At first Feyre hates Tamlin and his friend Lucien, but overtime she becomes attracted to Tamlin. Tamlin on the other hand is cursed, as is his entire court (The Spring Court). They have mascarade-esque masks permanently magicked to their faces and they talk of a "blight"in the land destroying everything, and Feyre is the key to saving everything, if only she could be honest about her feelings to herself and to Tamlin.
This book was an incredible read, I was hooked from the very beginning and to the end. I absolutely adored how the trials Feyre had to overcome took a long time and were physically awful for her. However if the second book yields a love triangle between Tamlin/Feyre/Rhysand I am going to be angry as it took true love to break the spell on Tamlin. All in all I am excited to see where this series goes in the next two books. It also makes me want to read Sarah J. Maas' other series A Throne of Glass.
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