![]() ![]() I’ll be honest, I am personally not the biggest fan of first person narratives, which, to my initial dismay, this book was. ![]() ![]() Her character and the plot itself are the lifelines of this book. Stockholm syndrome anyone? Falling in love with your captor? Being such a smart cookie with bigger dreams than her town could offer only to “settle” for marrying a prince? The part of me that is slightly a feminist surely lamented on the holes in this fairytale.īut then in comes A Curse So Dark and Lonely and Harper, the Belle of the book. I loved watching the original Beauty and the Beast growing up! But around the time the live action with Emma Watson came around, by then I had also read an article shedding light on topics that never occurred to me about the storyline. ![]() Unless he finds the right girl to fall in love with him… She meets Rhen, a “boy prince”, cursed by an enchantress thanks to his careless actions and doomed to an endless cycle of reliving the autumn season of his 18th year and turning into a beast at the end of each autumn. In a strange twist of fate, Harper Lacy, a fiercely independent teenager who refuses to let her cerebral palsy define her life, gets pulled out of DC into a strange otherworld called Emberfall. Hey there, bookish friends! Guest reviewer Denise here to report on A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer. ![]()
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