But sometimes it’s nice to see that things don’t end perfectly, but there’s a hope for better. I won’t go into detail because I don’t want to spoil the book for anyone who reads reviews before reading books, but oh boy. Just not in the way I necessarily expected. I went into this book expecting a romance with a happy ending, and I did get it. This book had a perfect blend of both, and I was overjoyed. But with the war in the background, you still get to see plenty of action. Most of this book is set in the new Dark Court, so there are a lot of political machinations going on. This book is packed with adventure and intrigue. It was a little slow to get into, but by the second half of the book, I was flying through it. Alyce would do anything for Aurora, but when she finally awakens, will she be able to love the villain Alyce has become? Over the years, she has been destroying the fae courts for her people whilst secretly trying to find a way to remove the curse from the woman she loves. 100 years have passed, and the Briar Kingdom is now home to Alyce’s Dark Court. Anyone would be able to kiss her awake, apart from Alyce. But though true love’s kiss saved Aurora once, she was put back into a magical sleep. Malice followed Alyce and Aurora as they tried to break Aurora’s curse. I really enjoyed this book and thought it was a great ending to a fascinating duology. It was a book that I thoroughly enjoyed, so I thought I’d see if I could get an early copy of the sequel to read… And I did! Thanks so much to the team at Del Rey for both the ARC and finished copies of this book.

Both of those things meant that I was going to read Malice by Heather Walter when it came out last year. 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.I’m obviously a big fan of fairytale retellings, and I also read a lot of queer books. 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.

Malice heather walter book 2