What I'm Reading - A Court of Thorns and Roses

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I realize that I'm more than a couple of years behind (what else is new?) but I just finished reading the first 3 books in the Court of Thorns and Roses series.  

This fantasy book is based around a world where humans and faeries are separated by an invisible wall, after a long ago war ended with a treaty that kept their worlds a part.  Before the war, humans were slaves of the faeries, and thus, many tales and myths were told of the monstrous nature of faeries.  After killing a wolf that was a shape-shifting faerie, Feyre, the protagonist is dragged over the all into the land of the Fae.  The series tells her story and her increasing involvement with the Fae. 

I have to say, this is one of the BEST fantasy series I have read in a while.  The story line and characters are so well thought out and interesting and the world-building is fantastic!  The second book in the series, A Court of Mist and Fury, is phenomenal!  I can definitely see why it has such a following! 

My only problem with the series is some of the content - although it is published as a young adult book, it is pretty explicit in some parts. While I can skim over a word here or there, and I'm certainly not averse to it being clear that characters are involved in a physical relationship, the level of description in these books is steamy to say the least.  

While that's fine for me to read as an adult (although I feel like it's rather unnecessary to the story), it makes me hesitant to recommend this series to students.  I wonder if they will get to those parts of the story and think that is why I recommended it?  What would I think if my daughter were reading this book?  

I was rather sheltered in high school, and I wonder how I would have read this book through the lens of innocence.  Would I have been shocked?  Would I have just skimmed over those parts and not been bothered?  I don't know the answers to these questions, but they will continually be in the back of my mind when recommending books to students.  

Maybe I'm a prude, but I wish that students written for teenagers would be a bit less "edgy" - especially those, like A Court of Thorns and Roses, whose story can stand on their own!  

What do you think?  Have you read this series?  What are you thoughts as far as sexual content and language in young adult literature? 

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