If thirteen-year-olds find them there, that’s on them. I promise I’m not for parents censoring their children’s reading material…just for shelving adult books where they belong. I’ve read YA with dashes of all those things, but they pervade this story to a degree that I feel confident calling it an adult novel. I want to say something before starting my review: A Court of Thorns and Roses is marketed and published as YA, and its characters and plot do resemble those found in YA–but just to be clear, this book is not really YA. It includes strong language, fairly explicit sexual content, and a significant amount of violence, traumatic scenes, and scary imagery. I’ve included some spoilers in my Goodreads review. Note: this review is mostly spoiler-free. Prythian, she discovers, faces a threat that even its seven powerful High Lords cannot stand against. Feyre slowly adjusts to her new life and, despite her lifelong hatred and mistrust of faeries, begins to warm to her companions–Tamlin and Lucien–after learning that she will never be able return to her home in the south. Yet the longer she spends in the faerie world, the more aware Feyre becomes that something is terribly wrong there. He takes her north of the wall that separates the mortal world from faerie realm of Prythian.

After killing a wolf in the woods outside her village, Feyre is ripped away from her miserable life with a crippled father and ungrateful sisters by a faerie who demands her life in exchange for the wolf’s.

Second book a court of thorns and roses