A New York Times bestseller!
"Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale." - Jodi Picoult
In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.
Fall in love, break the curse.
It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall. 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. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope.
Nothing has ever been easy for Harper. 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. But when she tries to save someone else on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s instead somehow sucked into Rhen’s cursed world.
Break the curse, save the kingdom.
A prince? A monster? A curse? Harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe. But as she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what’s at stake. And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall . . . and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.
What?! Like what the heck, how can she leave us hanging like that? I realize she has 2 more books in the series, so I will be reading those. Overall, I enjoyed the book. Harper the main character is likeable. I like that Harper isn't perfect as nobody is and she's okay with that. Rhen is not very likeable in the beginning and he knows this about himself to a degree as he talks about the difficulties he has with Harper to Grey his commanding guardsman. Grey is both likeable and dislikeable. It depends on the choices he has to make. Being a guardsman really comes first for him.
My favorite part is when Harper give Grey the nickname Scary Grey because of his stance as a guardsman and his duty to protect the prince, Rhen. There were 2 things I wish had been done differently. 1) At the beginning, the author's action scene when Harper is being taken and shortly there after, is disjointed with very short sentences. I found it to be annoying, but also the only time I really saw this happening in the book this way. 2) In some areas, I felt the author was very descriptive while other areas she wasn't. Like with Grey, I don't really recall much of his description except that he has dark messy hair, but Lilith is very detailed.
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