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royalenbydisaster666 · 1 year

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Book boys I’d sell my little brother for:

No one, as much as we fight, i love him

•Maxon Schreave

•Percy Jackson

•Leo Valdez

•King Grey of Emberfall

•Ravi Singh

•Prince Henry

•Adam Carlsen

•Cardan Greenbriar

•Seth Gray

•Jesper Fahey

•Wylan van Eck

•Baz Grimm-Pitch

•Bram Greenfield

•Julian Diaz

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appleinducedsleep · 1 year

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Random Word BPC | January 2023

7. Set

#books #booklr #random word bpc #shadow and bone #a curse so dark and lonely #brigid kemmerer #katherine arden #the bear and the nightingale #book photo challenge #book photos #book photography #fairytale retellings #my books #booklovers #bookworm

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fancylala7 · 6 months

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#ya fantasy #fantasy books #fantasy romance #fantasy map #a curse so dark and lonely #brigid kemmerer

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good-books-to-read · 9 months

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Beauty & the Beast

A curse so dark and Lonely (ACSDAL) by Briged Kemmerer

Of beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

Of curses and kisses by Sandhya Menon

A Court Of Thorns And Roses (ACOTAR) by Sarah J. Maas

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

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books-in-a-storm · 7 months

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September JOMPBPC: Day 15 Next Up

#justonemorepage #jompbpc #booklr #bookblr #funko pop #funko and books #book photo challenge #the inheritance games #a curse so dark and lonely #september 2023

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galamurphy · 1 year

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"He stalked across the room like he wanted to wage war, but he kisses me like I'm the most delicate thing in the castle."

"A Heart so Fierce and Broken" by Brigid Kemmerer

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oblivion-books · 2 years

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“Failure isn't absolute, just because you couldn't save everyone doesn't mean you didn't save anyone.”

ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ ㅤ― Brigid Kemmerer, A Curse So Dark and Lonely

#brigid kemmerer #a curse so dark and lonely #book #quote #ya book #book quote #edit #brigidkemmereredit #bkemmereredit #acsdaledit #acsdal

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book-buni · 17 days

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I’ve sort of thought about it and I think the reason why I like certain fantasy series over others isn’t necessarily whether there’s romance or not, it’s how fully fleshed out multiple characters are. that’s why I enjoy Six of Crows, Rule of Wolves, and the chapters from different perspectives like in Darker Shades of Magic which help further broaden your knowledge of how each character is like. what they value and etc and how they change throughout the series. it’s why other fantasy series to me have been so mediocre - not because I didn’t enjoy reading them in the moment but because they just solely focused on a few characters or had the idea of fleshing the characters out but just missed the mark. it’s why after I made it about halfway through in A Curse So Dark and Lonely, I had to force myself to finish the first book (and haven’t picked the series back up). even though the main character was the ideal main girl who despite her disability had so much fire and fighting spirit, the story itself was just lacking. potential that wasn’t fully utilised to the fullest extent. someone said the romance between the main girl and guy felt forced, and I honestly agree. maybe some people won’t agree. but just some thoughts of my own. I just had to say this even if it’s not fully coherent.

For the longest time I thought that I didn’t like romance in fantasy because it solely focused on the main couple. Now it’s still similar to that, but I think I don’t enjoy the romance because it focuses on the couple, it’s because even before or after they get together the side characters are forgotten about. they weren’t even given much thought in the beginning - just plot devices so the two main leads will get together and aren’t important enough to be labeled further than the main character’s “best friend” or something along those lines.

definitely rambled but have a great day :)

#thoughts #blogging #bookblr #books #books and reading #six of crows #rule of wolves #a darker shade of magic #a curse so dark and lonely #book thoughts #book buni

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rapha-reads · 8 months

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After sending the summer dissecting A Curse So Dark And Lonely (amongst a corpus of other novels) to study contemporary rewritings of Beauty and the Beast, now that the thesis is done, I went and read the sequel, A Heart So Fierce And Broken.

I think I love A Heart more than A Curse.

Grey and Lia Mara have something so agonizing that Harper and Rhen lacked. Or, to say it otherwise, Harper and Rhen, for all that they are very modern versions of Belle et la Bête, are still constricted by the role they must play. The story, their story, has already been written, and they must play their part until the end, no matter the side quests on the way.

Of course, because A Curse is a play on B&tB, it's a variant, a critical adaptation, so reducing Rhen and Harper to just their motif is a bit mean. I honestly really love A Curse. I might be biased against it after months of learning about the og tale inside and out.

Meanwhile, Grey and Lia Mara occupy spaces of their own. Academic deformation or thesis post-trauma stress, I'm trying to think but I can't find the tale-type they'd belong too. They're not fairy tale archetypes developped into Fantasy characters, they are Fantasy characters exploring their own as-of-yet-unwritten story (all the stories have been told, but also, all the stories are still waiting to be told).

They are honestly fascinating, the guard turned long lost heir and the princess discarded who turns out to be the real power. There's so much anguish in them. So much self-sacrificing, self-effacing. Gods I should have included the book in my thesis, I could have drawn parallels between Rhen stuck in his role of Beast and Lia Mara in her role as the spare, Harper as the Beauty and Grey as the unwilling Prince... Dammit I'm having ideas now. Oh, well, let's keep them for when I'll give the PhD a try. Some years down the line.

Quote, because that passage made me weep a little. The weapon boy and the quiet reading girl. Oof. If that's not exactly my kind of favorite dynamic!

Also I'm a sucker for messy yet intense sibling relations and I'm soooo here for Harper and Jake, Lia Mara and Nolla Verin and especially Rhen and Grey. That's totally my jam.

#a curse so dark and lonely #a heart so fierce and broken #brigid kemmerer #beauty and the beast #the cursebreaker series #spoilers from the book but the fact that lilith is back and if she hadn't been there rhen and grey could have an actual brother relationshi #i'm yelling #rapha talks #rapha reads #books #literature #book recs #so i might be a bit traumatized by my thesis so what

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tiredandadventurousnerd · 7 months

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This man…

#grey #a curse so dark and lonely

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missroller15 · 1 year

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read a curse so dark and lonely and all i gotta say is I always end choosing the side that’s not the endgame. whoo hoo me.

anyway if anyone wants to talk abt it, im open to discussion. the other books got spoiled for me but I haven’t read them so disclaimer. <3

#LOOK IM NOT SHAMING OR ANYTHING BC I RLLY LIKED RHEN #but grey and harper’s tension was just sm better #it needed to be said 😔#a curse so dark and lonely

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errorcode1790 · 2 years

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The greatest tragedy of a book nerd is the love-hate relationship with our favourite books.

They hold the power to take us to worlds unknown with thrilling stories and characters who capture our hearts, providing a beautiful escape from such a dreary reality.

But when we have to come back to the real world it makes life all the more crushing: nothing hurts more than the longing for a world that doesn't exist..

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maricanread · 1 year

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(A curse so dark and lonely - chapter 53)

Harper's finally got it

#a curse so dark and lonely #Harper #Rhen #Grey #ACSDAL #books #ya #ya books #quotes #book quotes #a curse so dark and lonely quotes #cursebreakers #curse so dark and lonely

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roses-red-and-pink · 2 months

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I am STRUGGLING through this sequel. The main characters from the first book have been turned into background characters. And from the new main characters pov they are only making bad choices and it’s super hard to sympathize with them. I keep reading hoping for a glimpse of the characters I love. Just trying to get to the next book because apparently they play more of a role and make less bad decisions.

#my life #a curse so dark and lonely #a heart so fierce and broken

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hadersgf · 2 months

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yoooooooooo this book has me by the throat

#a curse so dark and lonely #grey is the guy honestly rhen can go bye bye #but of course I ship the main girl with the secondary male character of COURSE I do #books #reading #fantasy novels #romantic fantasy #harper x grey #grey x harper #if there’s no fic of this then I’m gonna have to fix it myself it seems #cursebreaker series #brigid kemmerer

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babysfirstwantedposter · 1 year

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tycho: i know you think my judgement’s clouded because i like jax a little bit

jake, holding tycho’s notepad: you doodled your wedding invitation

tycho: no, that’s our joint tombstone

jake: my mistake

#just finished forging silver into stars #it’s so good #forging silver into stars #a curse so dark and lonely

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