Grey is actually the one and only Royal Guard protecting and helping the Prince Beast defeat the curse… (view spoiler) I want him happy! For some reason I feel like he’s going to have an arc with one of the ladies from the castle, like Zo? Or he’ll eventually die in sacrifice for Rhen and/or Harper in Book 2. Grey: 1x SWOON FOR MR GREY in your editions, is his name spelt ‘Gray’ lol!?) Grey is 100% just Jem from TMI but he hasn’t gotten his fair HEA with Harper yet. For all Tamlin sympathisers, you will love this book. WHAT DO CP READERS THINK? So far I’ve read 1x CP blogger say how offensive it was and another (1x) blogger who tweeted how overjoyed she was by the representation and treatment of the subject. I’m in the middle of finding it disturbing that it can be brushed off to much, and so conveniently at times but also it’s feels quite genuine in Kemmerer’s values for adverse-diverse representation in 2020 fiction. Was it do to how empowered she felt? Was it due to how Kemmerer depicted her so able bodied? Is it a mix of my presumptions AS WELL as how it wasn’t that connected to the story, who knows?! Kemmerer notes at the end that it was not intended for Harper to have an entire personality around her ‘diverse’ feature. I’m ashamed to admit this but I must share it in my review: I forgot by the middle of the book that she had CP. She’s 18(ish?), white, poor, her mumma has cancer, her dad got in trouble with some seedy guys (loan sharks/mafia looking dudes) then ditched them, and her brother is v supportive/protective and also gay. The first third felt like a bit of a drag, because no love was happening, but it felt like I was in the Throne of Glass world, where there are small cottages and no modern technology and randomly heated baths. I have been meaning to read Kemmerer for 2 years now, and I borrowed her debut + this from the library– eek! I’m overjoyed.

It’s also been a bit of a therapy blanket for me while I go through a lot of changes. My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars (minus half a star because nothing can top ACOTAR, #SorryNotSorry).īlog header by EXPERIENCE WITH THE BOOK:

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

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