books read in 2015:   A   C O U R T   O F   T H O R N S   A N D   R O S E S   by Sarah J. Maas

There are those who seek me a lifetime but never we meet,
  And those I kiss but who trample me beneath ungrateful feet.

At times I seem to favor the clever and the fair,
  But I bless all those who are brave enough to dare.

By large, my ministrations are soft-handed and sweet,
  But scorned, I become a difficult beast to defeat.

For though each of my strikes lands a powerful blow,
  When I kill, I do it slow …