I am a huge fan of Brigid Kemmerer, and, as you know, a huge fan of retellings, so when I heard Kemmerer was writing a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, I was immediately sold. Trigger Warnings: This book features death due to cancer, loan sharks, threats of violence from loan sharks, kidnap, violent death, magical torture, violence, discussion of attempted suicide, threat of child murder and sexual abuse of a child, and a scene of blood, gore and viscera. 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: 29th January 2019 | Publisher: Bloomsbury YA | Source: Publisher via NetGalley I received this eProof for free from Bloomsbury YA via NetGalley for the purposes of providing an honest review.Ī Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

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