Unexpectedly, a human washes up on Briar’s shores and the young man chooses to serve Nimara, but there are other forces out there and he inadvertently wakes Aurora, surprising the Dark Court and upending plans even as Alyce tries to win Aurora all over again while fighting the Fae. The creatures of the blighted Malterre have come streaming into Briar now that the humans have fallen in order to create a home where they feel welcome.Īs the Dark Court swelled, they sought revenge on the Fae for having sought to destroy them in the first place, decimating Fae court after Fae court until only the Fae King’s court remains. Now Alyce calls herself Nimara after an ancient Vila and leads the Dark Court. Extended ThoughtsĪ century has passed since Aurora pricked her finger on the spindle and fell into an enchanted sleep, as told in Malice, the first book in this duology inspired by Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. I very often found myself on Alyce’s side, though, so it was really a great deal of fun to get this Sleeping Beauty story from her eyes. After ruling for a century, I expected her to have harder edges and to be more mature and jaded than Aurora, someone more evil and closer to the movie’s Maleficent. I liked how it focused on the world building and how deeply ingrained prejudices affect the world, but it was tempered by my annoyance with Alyce. Where the first book, Malice, felt like it was constrained by the movie, Misrule felt like the story was given a chance to breathe and become its own thing.
Misrule is the second in the Malice duology based on Disney’s Sleeping Beauty. Publisher: Cornerstone ISBN: 9781529101324 Number of pages: 480 Weight: 330 g Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 28 mm You may also be interested in.One Sentence Summary: A century has passed since the events of the first book and Alyce now rules the Dark Court, but, as they decimate the Fae Courts, Aurora is unexpectedly awoken and an old prophecy comes to the forefront. But could Aurora ever love the villain Alyce has become? Or is true love only for fairy tales? But that love came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce's vast power cannot seem to break, and their dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.Īlyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means descending into the monster Briar believed her to be. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce's thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. Not even the one person who holds her heart. No one escapes the consequences of her wrath.
Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce's wicked domain. Did they break the curse, or begin one? Sleeping Beauty's dark sorceress reclaims her story in this sequel to Maliceįeared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce has spent 100 years wreaking her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast.
0 kommentar(er)
