In 2015, A Court of Thorns & Roses launched a romantic fantasy series by Sarah J. Maas that would take Young Adult audiences by storm, but not many books have been able to recapture that same magic.

Maas’ first novel in her series mixes elements of Scottish folklore (the story of Tam Lin ) and the classic Beauty and the Beast . Featuring a gripping tale of a young woman taken to the faerie world after she kills a wolf in the woods, the story is as much a fairy tale retelling as it is a true romantasy.

Maas has gained a reputation as a stellar romantasy writer, and A Court of Thorns & Roses has proven itself a great crossover novel. Though it was published as YA, the story today is classified as New Adult, a classification usually aimed at those readers just out of high school

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