After all, it’s rare that fairy tales ask the question: What’s next? Of course, most of them also don’t involve subplots where the loyal soldier turns out to be the true heir to the kingdom and brother to the tortured prince.īut much of A Vow So Bold and Deadly is concerned with the answer to that question, as Harper and Rhen struggle to repair their relationship in the wake of his violence against Grey and their impending war against Syhl Shallow. When the second novel in Kemmerer’s series, A Heart So Fierce and Broken, shook things up by introducing Grey (the aforementioned loyal soldier) and Lia Mara (princess of a rival kingdom) as POV characters it came as a shock. Not entirely where we all thought this was going when we started, is it? In A Vow So Bold and Deadly, it concludes as a sprawling epic that brings neighboring kingdoms to the brink of war and sees long-lost brothers face off for a throne. Brigid Kemmerer’s “Cursebreakers” trilogy initially began as a reasonably simple Beauty and the Beast retelling, albeit one with its own intriguing spin on the traditional tale that included a tortured prince, his loyal guard, and a modern girl with cerebral palsy who finds her purpose in a world far from her native modern-day Washington, D.C.
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