Many thanks to @PRHinternational for free e-copy via Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review. Curses by Lish McBride Publication Date : July 20th 2021 Publisher : G. P. Putnam's Sons Genre : Fantasy / Retelling / YA Pages : 448 Ratings :โญโญโญโญโญ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ: Curses was fantastic and entertaining YA fantasy and retelling of Beauty and Beast about curses, friendship, family, manipulation, deception, trust, social class differences, accepting yourself, hope and love. Writing was beautiful with timeless feel to it set in 1880s with world of faeries, mages, and curses that made it atmospheric. Plot was fun and adventurous. This was more character driven and there were so many characters. Both Tevin and Merit were like characters we used to read in YA fantasy and yet I loved them both. Romance was lovely and slow burn. Though this was a fantasy there was less worldbuilding. World wasnโt explained much. We jump into the world of faery godlings who could gift or curse, mages who couldnโt curse but invented magical things, and humans divided in commoners and those with faery blood that created social and class differences. It was interesting to read about Caenโs bloom that removed the curse for few hours. Overall, Curses was entertaining, adventurous, and very well written well executed Beauty and Beast retelling with lots of characters, good message and lovely romance. I highly recommend this if you love, Retellings Fantasy with less worldbuilding more character driven classic feel rogue hero and kickass heroine slow burn romance balls and gowns Less drama No usual romance tropes witty characters and dialogues ๐๐๐๐ฟ : ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐จ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐๐ซ๐ค๐ช๐ง๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐ช๐ฉ๐ฎ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ฝ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐ง๐๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ก๐๐ฃ๐? #Curses #LishMcBride #GPPutnamsSons #BooksTeacupandReviews #PenguinRandomHouse #partner #YA #YAbook #YAreader #NetGalley #romance #Fantasy #YAFantasy #Retelling #Beautyandthebeastretelling #Fantasyreaders #bookstagrammer #bookishlife #bookbloggerofinstagram #readersofinstagram #bookphotography #Indianbookstagram #bookcommunity #bookgram #bookrec #bookreviewblog #bookreviewercommunity (at Ahmedabad, India) https://www.instagram.com/p/CTPYu6iInh5/?utm_medium=tumblr
