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* WingedHumanoid: Multiple species of fae within the series have wings, both bird-like and batlike. In all but the first book, members of these species are main characters.
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* AnythingThatMoves: Helion isn't too picky as to who or how many accompany him in bed.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Mostly played straight in that the High Lord tends to be the strongest fae of their court by design. The only exception being Amren.
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* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Mostly played straight in that the High Lord tends to be the strongest fae of their court by design. The only exception being Amren.
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** ''A Court of Thorns and Roses'' is inspired by ''Beauty and the Beast'' (Feyre is an impoverished merchant's daughter with two sisters, who has to make a deal to live with a mysterious beast. The mysterious beast turns out to be a handsome royal under a curse, and it is her love that will break the spell) and later the myth of Cupid and Psyche (Feyre is set three difficult tasks by a cruel and envious queen in order to be reunited with her love interest; after completing them she is [[spoiler: magically turned into an immortal being]]). It's also inspired by the Scottish ballad of "Tam Lin"; besides this being where Tamlin gets his name from, the plot concerns a young human woman who must rescue her lover from the Queen of the Fairies.
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** ''A Court of Thorns and Roses'' is inspired by ''Beauty and the Beast'' (Feyre is an impoverished merchant's daughter with two sisters, who has to make a deal to live with a mysterious beast. The mysterious beast turns out to be a handsome royal under a curse, and it is her love that will break the spell) and later the myth of Cupid and Psyche Myth/CupidAndPsyche (Feyre is set three difficult tasks by a cruel and envious queen in order to be reunited with her love interest; after completing them she is [[spoiler: magically turned into an immortal being]]). It's also inspired by the Scottish ballad of "Tam Lin"; besides this being where Tamlin gets his name from, the plot concerns a young human woman who must rescue her lover from the Queen of the Fairies.
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** ''A Court of Wings and Ruin'' is inspired by Snow White.
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** ''A Court of Wings and Ruin'' is loosely inspired by Literature/SnowWhite; Feyre eats an apple containing faebane that temporarily causes her to lose her power, the villain is an evil monarch with magical powers (albeit a king rather than a queen), the villain is betrayed by a subordinate who helps the protagonists, there's a subplot involving a magic mirtor that shows your true self, and the scene in which [[spoiler:Rhysand dies and Feyre begs the High Lords - of which there are seven including her - to save him out of love]] loosely resembles the seven dwarfs watching over Snow White.White until she's brought back to life by the prince.
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After debtors raid her home and attack her father, Feyre Archeron and her family are forced into poverty. Unwilling or unable to help, Feyre's family leave her to do all of the housework and hunting. During one of her hunts, she comes across a wolf stalking a deer. Knowing she and her family will starve if she doesn't bring back something, she kills the wolf, bringing its pelt to the village to trade. The next day, a giant beast crashes into her home. This beast is none other than Tamlin, High Lord of the Spring Court. For killing one of his brethren, he offers Feyre a choice: she can go with him to the Spring Court and live or she can die by his hand. Swallowing her hatred of faeries, Feyre follows Tamlin. When she arrives in Prythian, she learns that a strange blight is killing off Faery kind. And even though a powerful wall separates the humans from the faeries, it's only a matter of time before the blight crosses over.
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After debtors raid her home and attack her father, Feyre Archeron and her family are forced into poverty. Unwilling or unable to help, Feyre's family leave her to do all of the housework and hunting. During one of her hunts, she comes across a wolf fey-wolf stalking a deer. Knowing she and her family will starve if she doesn't bring back something, she kills the wolf, bringing its pelt to the village to trade. The next day, a giant beast crashes into her home. This beast is none other than Tamlin, High Lord of the Spring Court. For killing one of his brethren, he offers Feyre a choice: she can go with him to the Spring Court and live or she can die by his hand. Swallowing her hatred of faeries, Feyre follows Tamlin. When she arrives in Prythian, she learns that a strange blight is killing off Faery kind. And even though a powerful wall separates the humans from the faeries, it's only a matter of time before the blight crosses over.
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* AdultFear: Amarantha murders dozens of Winter Court children to punish the adults.
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** The Archeron family are desperately poor and primarily rely on Feyre's hunting to get by. However, it's mentioned that Elain - who loves gardening - is able to maintain a small flower garden outside their cottage. Which begs the question: why didn't any of them think of trying to grow vegetables?
** In the first book, Feyre's encounter with the shapeshifting puca in the manor garden, which she genuinely believes is her father. This is despite the fact that a) she knows some faeries can shapeshift and b) there's no logical explanation for her father getting there (he has a crippled leg and no wilderness survival skills - she even considers the possibility he came on a horse despite her family lacking the means to obtain horses - he has no idea where Feyre was taken in Prythian, and Feyre herself describes him as not the kind of man who would venture into faerie territory to save his captured daughter). In spite of all this, Feyre is immediately taken in by the illusion and isn't even a ''little'' suspicious.
** At the end of ''A Court of Wings and Ruin'' Feyre and Rhys make a magical pact that [[spoiler:if one of them dies so will the other]]. Besides the co-dependency issue, considering they're [[spoiler:co-rulers of the Night Court]] it would [[spoiler:leave the government leaderless and unstable, and possibly endanger the civilians]]. It only gets worse in ''A Court of Silver Flames'' after [[spoiler:Feyre becomes pregnant, as if anything were to happen to one of them it would guarantee their child was orphaned, and it directly makes things even ''worse'' in the climax when Feyre nearly dies in childbirth]]. Several readers considered it stupid at best, selfish and irresponsible at worst.
** The Archeron family are desperately poor and primarily rely on Feyre's hunting to get by. However, it's mentioned that Elain - who loves gardening - is able to maintain a small flower garden outside their cottage. Which begs the question: why didn't any of them think of trying to grow vegetables?
** In the first book, Feyre's encounter with the shapeshifting puca in the manor garden, which she genuinely believes is her father. This is despite the fact that a) she knows some faeries can shapeshift and b) there's no logical explanation for her father getting there (he has a crippled leg and no wilderness survival skills - she even considers the possibility he came on a horse despite her family lacking the means to obtain horses - he has no idea where Feyre was taken in Prythian, and Feyre herself describes him as not the kind of man who would venture into faerie territory to save his captured daughter). In spite of all this, Feyre is immediately taken in by the illusion and isn't even a ''little'' suspicious.
** At the end of ''A Court of Wings and Ruin'' Feyre and Rhys make a magical pact that [[spoiler:if one of them dies so will the other]]. Besides the co-dependency issue, considering they're [[spoiler:co-rulers of the Night Court]] it would [[spoiler:leave the government leaderless and unstable, and possibly endanger the civilians]]. It only gets worse in ''A Court of Silver Flames'' after [[spoiler:Feyre becomes pregnant, as if anything were to happen to one of them it would guarantee their child was orphaned, and it directly makes things even ''worse'' in the climax when Feyre nearly dies in childbirth]]. Several readers considered it stupid at best, selfish and irresponsible at worst.
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* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Several readers have noted that the way Nesta and Elain are portrayed in the first book differs from how they're portrayed in later books. In the first book they come across as stereotypical wicked fairytale sisters (likely based upon Beauty's spoilt and envious sisters in the original ''Beauty and the Beast'') with little motivation or explanation for why they're so useless and nasty to Feyre. Nesta at least ''is'' revealed to have some {{hidden depths}} later, having tried to rescue Feyre from Prythian and encouraging her to save Tamlin. The later books try to portray the sisters with more depth and sympathy - Nesta is a bitch out of pride and unresolved trauma, Elain is sweet but passive to the point of helplessness. It still seems a bit strange to some readers that they're presented as having [[AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther loved Feyre all along]] when they're so awful to her in Book 1, though. Sarah J. Maas stated in an interview that Feyre's sisters and in particular Nesta ended up being quite different from how she originally wrote them, which probably explains a lot.
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* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Prythian and Hybern are loosely based upon the British Isles. The bigger island containing Prythian and the Mortal Lands resembles Britain in shape and size; Hybern, the slightly smaller island located to the west of Prythian, resembles Ireland. Prythian appears to be a portmanteau of Prydain (the old Welsh name for Britain) and Brython (Welsh for Briton). Hibernia is the Latin name for Ireland. The whole history with Prythian and Hybern warring for centuries is similar to the real-world conflict between Ireland and Britain, although weirdly it's the Ireland-counterpart who keep trying to invade the Britain-counterpart; anyone who is remotely familiar with the history of the British Isles will tell you it was the ''other'' way around in real life.
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** ''A Court of Thorns and Roses'' is inspired by ''Beauty and the Beast'' (Feyre is an impoverished merchant's daughter with two sisters, who has to make a deal to live with a mysterious beast. The mysterious beast turns out to be a handsome royal under a curse, and it is her love that will break the spell) and later the myth of Cupid and Psyche (Feyre is set three difficult tasks by a cruel and envious queen in order to be reunited with her love interest; after completing them she is [[spoiler: magically turned into an immortal being]]). It's also inspired by the Scottish ballad of "Tam Lin"; besides this being where Tamlin gets his name from, the plot concerns a young human woman who must rescue her lover from the Queen of the Fairies.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: As the series goes on the books go out of their way to excuse Feyre, the Inner Circle, and ''especially'' [[spoiler: Rhysand]]'s more morally-iffy actions despite them being hypocritical or downright morally reprehensible, while other characters guilty of doing the same thing are treated as terrible people. [[spoiler:Rhys]]'s actions in particular range from hiding the danger's of Feyre's [[spoiler:pregnancy]] ''from her'', drugging and molesting her for days Under the Mountain for the flimsy excuse of stoking Tamlin's rage, shaming Morrigan for being triggered when he reveals her safe space to her abusive father, repeatedly keeping Feyre in the dark when he has a mission for her, making rather disgusting comments about their sex life, but his actions are often justified in-universe as being necessary evils or a cover-up for benevolent acts.
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* HeroicFantasy: The first book mostly falls into this category, although for the remainder of the series it shifts into High Fantasy. Feyre is a PragmaticHero whose main goal is initially to protect her family and survive, including trying to find a way out of a magically-binding contract with a faerie lord, who tricked her in the hopes she could break a curse that has befallen his court. After she falls in love with him she goes to save him from an evil faerie queen, whom she learns is a threat to the whole world. Feyre is also a BadassNormal who mostly relies on her wits and hunting skills to overcome obstacles; in the second book she gains powers.
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* GratuitousRape: Although Feyre fortunately [[DownplayedTrope isn't raped]], she spends a lot of the first book's third act being sexually harassed and humiliated, including being subjected to GoGoEnslavement, being drugged and forced to perform lap dances, and being intimately touched without her consent. She is also clearly afraid that she will be raped at some point or that she might've been raped while drugged. Rhysand states he's only doing this in order to protect her from worse treatment from Amarantha and her cronies, though some have questioned why his idea of being CruelToBeKind is so centered around sexual assault and degradation (especially seeing as at one point he just has her clean his room for hours). Feyre is already in an extremely dire situation [[note]]she has to participate in deadly trials with the fate of a whole court hanging in the balance and the rest of the time she's locked in a dingy dungeon, forced to listen to the screams of tortured people and having minimal contact with her loved ones[[/note]] so this adds little to the plot. Given what happens in Book 2, Maas may have intended these scenes to establish the [[spoiler:[[FoeRomanceSubtext future romantic relationship]] between Feyre and Rhysand]], although Rhysand [[PetTheDog secretly helping Feyre with her trials]] sets this up just as well (if not better).
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* {{Filler}}: The novella ''A Court of Frost and Starlight'' is largely a low-stakes, lighthearted slice-of-life story that doesn't significantly advance the plot or characters; you can skip this one and go straight to ''A Court of Silver Flames'' with little trouble.
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* DeathByOriginStory: Rhysand and Tamlin's parents and siblings died in a feud between their two families.
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* BlackAndGrayMorality: The main villains, especially the King of Hybern and Amarantha, tend to be purely evil and [[CardCarryingVillain don't even try to hide it]]; their goals and motives don't really get explored beyond "TakeOverTheWorld and kill anyone who gets in the way". The protagonists are firmly opposed to the villains yet many of them tend to be presented as flawed and willing to do some questionable things to achieve their goals. Feyre herself gets involved by killing a wolf she strongly suspects is a faerie and decides it doesn't matter either way because she needs to provide for her family and [[FantasticRacism "all faeries are evil"]].
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* HotterAndSexier: The series has never shied away from depicting sexual content, but ''A Court of Silver Flames'' (the first book to be specifically marketed as adult literature rather than young adult) really ramps this up, with sex scenes being far more frequent and explicit than previous installments, to the point of bordering on/crossing into PornWithPlot.
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Creator/SarahJMaas, initially aimed at {{Young Adult}}s before being increasingly marketed towards adults.
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* SamePlotSequel: The main premise of ''A Court of Silver Flames'' recycles quite a bit from ''A Court of Mist and Fury''. A young woman who saved Prythian in the previous installment is left traumatized and alienated from her loved ones. She is forced out of her rut against her will and eventually finds ways to heal and makes new friends, while also developing a romance with a man she previously disliked who turns out to be her destined mate. Oh and there's a side plot about an evil monarch trying to get a magical artifact.
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* AnachronismStew: Not quite played straight seeing as it's fantasy, but the setting generally indicates it's a MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Trouble is, it tends to mix this with technology and what-have-you from much later periods. For example, Feyre hunts with a bow and arrow, rather than a crossbow or firearm, but simultaneously there are flushing toilets in the setting. On top of that, there are frequent occurrences of a clearly anachronistic language, such as "pissy".
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* AnachronismStew: Not quite played straight seeing as it's fantasy, but the setting generally indicates it's a MedievalEuropeanFantasy. Trouble is, it tends to mix this with technology and what-have-you from much later periods. For example, Feyre hunts with a bow and arrow, rather than a crossbow or firearm, but simultaneously there are flushing toilets in the setting. On top of that, there are frequent occurrences of a clearly anachronistic language, such as "pissy". The descriptions of people's outfits (and the accompanying illustrations in the official coloring book) just add to the stew because the clothes seem to be pulled from various different time periods, some centuries apart.
