Feyre Archeron

The fantasy-romance book series “A Court of Thorns and Roses” is known by book lovers worldwide, especially in social media. All the books of the series managed to keep the readers hooked. One of the reasons for this kind of big love, interest towards the series and storyline is the authenticity of each character of the series. The female main character of the series, “Feyre Archeron”, has the most effective impact on the readers. With her character growth and life-saving sacrifices, Feyre is one of the most important characters, which kept the storyline going.

Feyre is the lead female character of the series, who was born as a human and became the High Lady of The Night Court through walking a hard, painful and full of sacrifices path, which made her who she is in the end. By being the hardworking and caring youngest sister of the Archeron family, she was taking more responsibilities than a person at her age should have been taking on themselves. Normally, it's not that common to see the youngest child to take care of their whole family. But Feyre was taking care of her two older sisters and father. After their mother's death and major financial problems of the family, life took an unexpected and sharp turn for the Archeron family, especially for Feyre.

Feyre was the sister, who hunted for her family, took care of their need for food, money and their wellbeing. She was always focused on everyone's wellbeing around herself. The only thing she had overlooked was actually the most important thing; herself. Feyre has always been way mature for her age. Even though she mostly didn't notice or let herself acknowledge that, the way her life moved forward gave her no choice but to take control and be her own salvation. For a long time, she has tried to be enough for her family and also for herself. All materialistic needs of her and the Archeron family seemed to be covered. Unknowingly, Feyre continued her life without acknowledging her need for emotional support and a love, that she could really feel, instead of her family's love, which felt like non-existent and conditional.

It was her need for love and to be accepted, which made her clueless about what real love supposed to feel like or not. That's why she accepted the crumbs of the love that Tamlin gave her, which left her heart broken, and its pieces scattered in the end. Feyre didn't know that real love wouldn't hurt and force her to fit in to some kind of fake personality, which is way different from whom she really is, to feel accepted and loved by the person in her life. Because of that, Tamlin's behavior and the way he loved her was the "real love" for her. She couldn't question something she didn't have a real idea about what it should have been normally like.

Feyre's main character transformation happened after she was reborn as a fae. She already had a goal oriented, stubborn personality when she was a human. But after her transformation, she had a huge phase of breakdown, which left her psychologically and physically weak for a long while. After that we, as readers, get the opportunity to see her healing journey full of ups and downs and especially full of love.

After Tamlin's destructive love, Feyre experiences some difficulties with getting used to Rhysand's healing and caring love for her. Since his love for her way different from the love she was used to getting from Tamlin, it wasn't easy for her to suddenly change her perception of love. But step by step, she finally accepted Rhysand's love for her and let herself feel the healing type of love, too. Both Rhysand and Feyre had wounds, that took and were taking a long time of healing. Unlike Tamlin, Rhysand had empathy for Feyre and he did not try to change her. He helped her to achieve her full potential and fully heal. But in the end, Feyre was the one who worked hard and took the risk to change everything and accept that she needed to heal.

Feyre Archeron is a strong-willed character, who sacrificed a lot to protect the people she loved. The courageous steps she took enabled her to realize, that she wasn't someone, who was going to let others make decisions for her or control her life. She did not let the world scare her, she directly looked into the eyes of reality, instead of being scared of it. She did not let the world break her and showed us that only we can decide what breaks us.