And Harper is maintaining the fiction that she’s a princess from a land known as Disi, here to form an alliance with Rhen’s kingdom. Rhen’s still struggling with the fallout from the brutal curse that had him in its clutches for years. Yes, A Heart So Fierce continues many of the plotlines begun in Curse so Dark. Grey’s still trying to process the knowledge that he may secretly be the heir to the throne of Emberfall. Prince Rhen and Harper’s love story feels real and earned, of course, but what happens after the curse is broken? But still, at the end of the day, it’s based on a story we know. Well told, yes, and beautifully written, featuring a tortured prince, a steadfast guard and a modern girl with cerebral palsy rather than a dreamy fantasy princess. The first book in Kemmerer’s Cursebreakers Trilogy, A Curse so Dark and Lonely, was a fairly straightforward Beauty and the Beast retelling. One which doesn’t continue the original story in anything like the way we might have initially expected. Brigid Kemmerer’s A Heart So Fierce and Broken is such a follow-up. Who doesn’t want to see a story that thrilled them get a second chapter. But best kinds of sequels do much more than simply continue a story, they make us look at the one that came before it. And that’s a good thing.Įveryone loves a sequel. The second installment in Brigid Kemmerer’s Cursebreakers trilogy, A Heart So Fierce and Broken isn’t at all what we expected it to be.
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