I love how this was part of her, but didn’t define her or hold her back. Not only with the repeating cycle of prince-beast-prince-beast, but also whole thing about parallel worlds.Īnd of course there’s Harper’s cerebral palsy. And after a while, it gets hard to find an original angle to the story. I think Beauty and the Beast might be the fairytale with the most retellings of all. And when that doesn’t happen by the end of the season, Rhen turns into a vicious beast before the whole cycle starts again. He is cursed to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, until a girl falls in love with him. This world is Emberfall, the kingdom of prince Rhen. When she witnesses a kidnapping on the streets of Washington, D.C., and tries to intervene, she is sucked into a mysterious world. Her father is long gone, her mother is dying, her brother is involved in shady business and Harper herself is constantly underestimated because of her cerebral palsy. Can A Curse So Dark And Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer bring something fresh to this tale as old as time? Take one prince who is cursed and turns into a beast and one girl who is forced to live in his castle in the hopes that she can break the curse, and what do you get? An entire shelf worth of Beauty and the Beast retellings.
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