Writing the story from the perspective of the Beast has been done before ( The Beast’s Heart) but I had not yet read a book that was dual POV between the Beast and the ‘Belle’ character – in this case, called Harper – and I thought it was a really cool take on the story. I’m quite lucky in that each of the Beauty and the Beast retellings I have read has been quite different, all of them taking a different approach to this well-known story. 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. I read a lot of Beauty and the Beast retellings last year and this one was certainly interesting. So, while A Curse so Dark and Lonely publishes in 2019, it does still count towards the year of ALL THE RETELLINGS because I read it in 2018. So, rather than leaving this review until the new year, I thought I’d write it while the book was still fresh in my mind. Part of the fun of this book reviewing lark is that you get to read things quite a way in advance, but that does mean you have to do a little bit of ‘time travel’ when getting reviews out. Hello Humans! I’m going to preface this review with a disclaimer, I am writing this review in 2018, in November in fact.

A curse so dark and lonely