![]() ![]() I think the biggest draw for me in this story is the fact that you don’t need to know the original story. But as a debut novel, the first in a duology, and something that features a lot of humanizing features, you have to give it props. ![]() I know it isn’t perfect and there could have been more enhancing the world building and some of the events that take place. ![]() This was a slow-burning retelling that I really enjoyed. ![]() Because we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. Perhaps together we could forge a new world. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. But with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating–and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. Even though a power like mine was responsible for her curse. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. ![]()
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