This story is beautiful, vicious magic.' -Tasha Suri, author of Empire of Sand 'A beautifully imaginative and feminist retelling of a fairy tale so often swept into the dark. ' Malice is the dark and wicked heart of a fairy tale carved into a book. I loved it!' -Sarah Beth Durst, award-winning author of the Queens of Renthia series 'Absolutely dazzling! Full of love, power, and betrayal, Malice is as compelling as a spell, as captivating as an enchantment, and as fascinating and delicious as a fairy-tale curse.

Chakraborty, author of the bestselling Daevabad trilogy 'A truly original and clever retelling of a classic that had me racing to the end-you'll never look at 'Sleeping Beauty' the same way again.' -S. Fairy tale lovers of all ages will be thrilled.' - Publishers Weekly (starred review) 'The villain takes center stage in Walter's superlative debut, a refreshing spin on Sleeping Beauty. Because we all know how this story ends, don't we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. Perhaps together we could forge a new world. If my power began her curse, perhaps it's what can lift it. But 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. Even though a power like mine was responsible for her curse. 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. 'Walter's spellbinding debut is for all the queer girls and women who've been told to keep their gifts hidden and for those yearning to defy gravity.'- O: The Oprah Magazine Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die. But in this 'bewitching and fascinating' (Tamora Pierce) retelling of 'Sleeping Beauty,' true love is more than a simple fairy tale. About the Book 'Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2021' - title page verso.īook Synopsis A princess isn't supposed to fall for an evil sorceress.

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