When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a terrifying creature arrives to demand retribution. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she knows about only from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not truly a beast, but one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled her world.
At least, he's not a beast all the time.
As she adapts to her new home, her feelings for the faerie, Tamlin, transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But something is not right in the faerie lands. An ancient, wicked shadow is growing, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin-and his world-forever.
My friend Jeni has been on my butt for MONTHS about reading this and so this summer I caved and Y'ALL. I LOVED IT!!! I'm normally not huge on fantasy (I didn't love Fourth Wing like everyone else) and when she said it had fairies I assumed she meant FAIRY not FAERIE which is a whooooole other thing. I was immediately drawn into the characters, setting, fantasy land of it all and I couldn't put it down. I know it has a reputation for being spicy but I didn't find it to be anything outrageous. I've started the second book but my real life job has limited my reading time so I'm having a hard time getting through it since I am pretty much only reading at night which is a recipe for 3 pages and then falling asleep but I really did love the first one so I'm going to keep on keeping on. All that to say - if you've been hesitant because you heard it was super spicy or because you're really not into fantasy books give it a shot because it will probably surprise you.
