The other Grace’s can only do so many potions for healing and beauty for so long until they lose their power. The truth of it was that she actually had nothing to prove to anyone, not the Housemistress, or The Grace’s because she was the most powerful of them all. I enjoyed reading as her character developed and she learned how powerful she actually was.
She wanted to help, but they destroyed any last ounce of hope and belief she had in the world she was a part of. The saddest part of it is that she had a genuinely good heart. Being part Vila made her different and cast her aside as an abomination. After years of abuse by those around her, it was only going to be a matter of time before she snapped. Whilst I didn’t lose interest in reading Malice, I did find it dragged a bit with the initial backstory.įor the character’s I want to start by saying, Alyce deserved better. As I’ve mentioned in many reviews previously, if it takes a long time to get to the action I can lose some interest in what I’m reading. There is so much about this book to love, however, I must admit the pacing for the first half of it felt too slow for me. This may surprise everyone but Malice is the first fairy-tale retelling I’ve ever read – terrible, I know! But what a retelling to break the curse with (see what I did there?). Filled with magic, darkness, and love this book shines a new light on a very old story. Malice takes the story of Sleeping Beauty and tips it on its head. Perhaps, together, we could forge a new world.īecause we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse.īut with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating-and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster.
One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die.
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