Cats and their Keepers discussion

Recently, I powered through Sarah J. Maas' Throne of Glass series and reread her Court series. I can't get enough of her writing style! It's dark, gives me chills, and hosts powerful, complex and dynamic women who struggle and develop as the series move forward. It takes me days after reading one book to be able to read another one cause I'm absorbed into world.

Honestly, Maas has become one of my favourite authors (I'll read anything she writes at this point - even her grocery list). However, it took a couple of tries to get to this point.

I read Throne of Glass and A Court of Thorns and Roses last year and both were sort of disappointing. I thought the love between Tamlin and Feyre wasn't authentic and plot took a long time before anything interesting happens, and Calaena from TOG is irritating AF. Neither first book in each series really called to me.

But then I read A Court of Mist and Fury.

I'm so glad I decided to read the second book in ACOTAR. I can't stress this enough! I picked it up since it was recently released and though, "Why not? The first wasn't awful. Let's see what happens." AND IT BLEW MY MIND. It's everything I've ever wanted in a book. The romance was a slow burn, Feyre blossoms after Under the Mountain, and the characters and plot fit perfectly together. It's probably the only time The Second Book was better than the first.

Since then, I picked up the rest of TOG and read through the remaining four books (including the prelude novellas) in a week. I literally could not put them down. I consumed them like a raging fire. The next in the series, Empire of Storms comes out on September 6 and I'm going to be lining up before the store opens!

I cannot stress enough how much these books have opened my eyes to YA novels. These women are powerful, independent, and murderous! It's amazing that young women have these inspiring figures in YA novels. Unapologetic bad-ass young women is what we need! It's what we want! And it's what we're getting with Maas!

I wanted to share my new love for this author after rereading the ACOTAR books over the weekend. Plus my entire tumblr feed is ACOTAR and TOG. SPREAD THE LOVE.