The book "A Court of Thorns and Roses" by Sarah J. Maas is a retelling of which classical fairytale?

"A Court of Thorns and Roses" is the first book of the book series with the same name by the best-selling author Sarah J. Maas.

"A Court of Thorns and Roses" follows Feyre Archeron, a 19-year-old huntress who is taken to the faerie land of Prythian by a creature that demands punishment after she kills a faerie wolf in the woods. Feyre discovers that her kidnapper is a High Fae named Tamlin, and one of the seven High Lords of Prythian. As she lives with Tamlin at his estate in the Spring Court, she comes to learn that everything she has learnt about the faerie world is a lie.

What connects the story of the first book to the plot of "Beauty and The Beast" is the fact that the protagonist gets taken and not able to leave an enchanted palace with all occupants wearing masks magically attached to their faces due to a powerful curse, with their own magic being affected so they are not able to free themselves. For this curse to be broken, the protagonist later learns, Tamlin, The High Lord of the Spring Court and "the Beast" that took her, has to find a human girl who has killed a Fae out of hatred then make her fall in love with him.

The next books can be classified as a retelling of the "Hades and Persephone" fairytale.