Life is bleak for Feyre. Her family are starving, she can’t find food in the woods and there is the ever-growing threat of the faeries on the other side of the nearby wall.
Until the wolf. After slaughtering the majestic animal to take its prey for herself and her sisters, the winter feels slightly better. Her dreams don’t seem as out of reach as they used to. But not everyone saw her kill as a success. After a faerie captures her to live out her life sentence, she is drawn towards the masked Tamlin and knows that nothing will ever be the same again.
This book has to be one of my favourites. At the moment, I have found a love for the fairytale-esque books such as these, Sarah J Maas becoming a regular on my bookshelf. It wasn’t until I read another review of this book that I found out that this book was actually a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and after re-reading it I could see the similarities to the original story, including the significance of the masks.
Maas has a way of creating characters that are realistic even if the story may not be, and then describing them in such a way that you believe that you’re about to look up from the page to see them in front of you. Her storytelling is superb, and I would definitely give this book a 5/5.
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