If "A Court of Thorns and Roses" ($10, originally $19) — better known by its acronym, ACOTAR — isn't the book that started it all, it's certainly one of the best known books in the fantasy romance genre. For many readers, this five-book series represents their first dipped toe into the infinity pool that is fantasy romance.
In book one, 19-year-old Feyre kills a wolf, secretly an undercover faerie, while hunting in the woods, and is taken to a faerie kingdom as prisoner to pay for her crime, where she develops feelings for her faerie captor and his kingdom. There are five books in the series: the first three compose the original trilogy, and two others are independent novellas that pick up where the trilogy left off. Reportedly, Maas is working on a sixth.
