Alyce is known as the Dark Grace and has been mistreated her whole life because her magical blood runs green instead of gold. The book really focuses on her journey, and seeing how her character evolved during the book is what really kept me hooked. Heather Walter did an amazing job of showing Alyce’s perspective and making me sympathise with her character. Good and evil isn’t so simple here, as almost every character falls somewhere in between. Graces have little control over their lives due to the Grace Laws, and although their lives seem glamorous on the outside, there is an insidious undercurrent to the way this society functions.
In return for their services, Graces receive payment and invitations to parties, but then when their magic Fades, they also fade out of the spotlight. The upper classes are selfish and vain, obsessed with beauty and luxury, and how they can use the Graces to obtain those things. Malice includes many key elements of Sleeping Beauty (as well as a dash of other fairy tales, like Cinderalla), but weaves these into a new world and story in a refreshing way.įrom the start, I really enjoyed the world building, and how the society of Briar is depicted. The word ‘retelling’ is sure to get me interested in a book, and when I saw Malice was a Sapphic reimagining of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective of the villain, I just knew I had to read it. Thank you so much to Del Ray and NetGalley for the eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. Perhaps, together, we could forge a new world.īecause we all know how this story ends, don’t we? Aurora is the beautiful princess. If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse.īut 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. 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. 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 darkly magical retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale. A princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress.
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