Format: ebook
Source: provided for review
Disclaimer: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Date read: October 14, 2020
Gothic Fairytales
1. Bitterburn - Kindle
2. Mirror, Mirror
3. Widow of Wildwood
Ann Aguirre
| Website | Twitter | Facebook | Amazon |
Synopsis (Goodreads):
Amarrah Brewer is desperate and grief-stricken.Thoughts on Bitterburn: You know when you pick up a book and it's everything you need it to be before you even know you need it? Yeah. Yeaaaaaah. That was this book. It was exactly what I was looking for without me being able to articulate what it was I was looking for. It was grief and loss and hope and magic and heartache and trust and the slow burn of a new romance all set in a beloved, wildly imaginative world.
For ages, the town of Bitterburn has sent tribute to the Keep at the End of the World, but a harsh winter leaves them unable to pay the toll that keeps the Beast at bay. Amarrah volunteers to brave what no one has before—to end the threat or die trying.
The Beast of Bitterburn has lost all hope.
One way or another, Njål has been a prisoner for his entire life. Monstrous evil has left him trapped and lonely, and he believes that will never change. There is only darkness in his endless exile, never light. Never warmth. Until she arrives.
It's a tale as old as time... where Beauty goes to confront the Beast and falls in love instead.
Everything I needed before I even knew I needed it.
Amarrah starts out resigned. She doubts she'll live through her journey to Bitterburn, but she's got nothing left in the village for her and she's sort of given up. The keep gives her a new lease on life. Sort of. It isn't exactly Bitterburn that changes her, though. It's more a combination of Bitterburn's magic and Njål's stoic presence.
Basically, Njål draws her in by being standoffish and a little grumpy and yet unfailing polite despite everything that's happened to him in his long life. To be fair, however, Amarrah changes him, just as markedly as he changes her. He starts caring again. He's afraid to hope, but he can't help himself around her. He lets her in and that changes everything. Every.thing.
Everything I needed and then some. I have so much love for this book. So much. I mean, how can you resist a BatB retelling with dark magic, painful secrets, a slow-burn romance, and a Beast who treats his uninvited guest with such gentleness? *draws glitter hearts around these two*
PURCHASE LINKS
Only $2.99!
Free in Kindle Unlimited
AUTHOR BIO
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre has been a clown, a clerk, a savior of stray kittens, and a voice actress, not necessarily in that order. She grew up in a yellow house across from a cornfield, but now she lives in Mexico with her family. She writes all kinds of genre fiction, but she has an eternal soft spot for a happily ever after.
AUTHOR LINKS
No comments:
Post a Comment