The contemporary parts set in present-day DC really read like contemporary YA. One of the cool things to me about A CURSE SO DARK AND LONELY was the way the genres collided. And her compassion wakes Rhen’s passion for his people. She’s so moved by the suffering of the villagers in Emberfall that she begins to find ways to fight for them. She loves her family with her whole heart. I wasn’t expecting a sequel to this book, but the ending definitely sets up for one.)

(Looks like he’ll get his own chance to tell a story, though.

The only thing that worried me about him was how much I liked him-I worried he’d steal the show. Rhen’s only surviving companion is Grey, the last surviving member of the Royal Guard. The monster will kill anyone in his path, so even while Rhen is human, he’s tortured by the guilt of what he’s done as a monster in the past and filled with dread at what will happen the next time. Instead of appearing as a monster 24/7, Prince Rhen relives the same season over and over knowing that at the end of the season, he’ll turn into a bloodthirsty monster and have no memory of himself. I love the way some of the elements of Beauty and the Beast were reimagined in A Curse So Dark and Lonely. and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall.

And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But as she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what’s at stake. But when she tries to save someone else on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s instead somehow sucked into Rhen’s cursed world.Ī prince? A monster? A curse? Harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe.

With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, she learned to be tough enough to survive. Nothing has ever been easy for Harper Lacy. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him. It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. Published on JanuAmazon | Bookshop | Goodreads A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers #1)

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