Beasts of Briar
Stolen Crowns, Ebook 5
Fairy Tales, Fairy Story Fantasy
M&F Publishing
January 16, 2025
E book
374
Everybody sees him as a monster. Besides her.
Bellamy’s brothers have been cursed for sixty years, caught residing as swans. She has solely a brief period of time left to interrupt the curse, or they’ll be trapped endlessly. Fortunately, she’s lastly found how.
Unluckily, it includes touring to the lethal shadow courtroom and harvesting the thorny nettle weed that grows within the fortress gardens, which Bellamy should use to knit sweaters. One sweater for every of her seven brothers—and he or she can’t utter a single phrase till the curse is damaged.
When the fearsome and mysterious shadow king catches her and provides protected haven, she doesn’t know what to assume. She’s hated him her complete life for the atrocities he dedicated towards her individuals. But there’s one thing alluring beneath his shadowy exterior, and he or she finds herself drawn to him towards all higher judgment.
However an even bigger evil looms over her, one which doesn’t need this curse damaged. One which’s not only a menace to Bellamy, however to the whole world. And she or he could be the just one who can cease it.
Beasts of Briar is the ultimate e-book in Stolen Crowns, a sequence of steamy standalone however interconnected fairytale retellings. This Wild Swan meets Magnificence and the Beast retelling is ideal for followers of enemies-to-lovers, shadow daddies, and slow-burn fantasy romance.
“We began this journey and we’re going to see it to the tip.”
Beasts of Briar by Tee Harlowe marks the tip of a journey for me. It was an exquisite journey not solely by means of the world of Arathia however by means of my previous. In Tee Harlowe’s Stolen Crowns sequence, I relived my love for Disney and endings which might be fortunately ever after. From the Snow White and Robin Hood remix in Mirror of Malice to the Alice in Wonderland retelling in Wilds of Marvel, I completely loved all of the books on this steamy fantasy romance sequence.
Beasts of Briar is the ultimate e-book within the Stolen Crown sequence and reads like Magnificence and the Beast meets the Wild Swan. I feel this was one among Tee’s most inventive reimaginings but. The creator does a unbelievable job weaving characters, scenes, and emotions which might be acquainted from these tales with the distinctive mythology of Arathia. The result’s a narrative that’s surprising, actually magical, and many enjoyable.
The FMC, Bellamy, searches for a solution to break the curse over her seven brothers. They had been become swans over sixty years in the past and he or she, who can’t communicate till the curse is damaged, should knit seven sweaters out of toxic briars to free them. The briars develop in abundance on the fortress of the darkish and harmful Spirit Shadow. Our MMC, Kairoth, catches Bellamy steaking what’s his and makes her his “visitor” within the fortress. Bellamy and Kairoth’s romance is ideal for followers of pressured proximity with a shadow daddy trope. A few of Kairoth’s traces positively are swoon-worthy:
She may smash the whole lot. Part of me additionally thought she is perhaps the reply to the whole lot. Every thing I wanted. Every thing this world wanted.
As a result of if a lady like her could possibly be this courageous, this fearless, this selfless, if she may survive this, then she may do something.
Along with the romance, I beloved spending a while with characters in previous Stolen Crown books once more. After all, we’ve our dynamic duo of Driscoll and Leoni, who’re heroes all through the sequence. We additionally see the princesses and queens of the realm reuniting within the closing chapters of Beast of Briar. Harlowe pulled the magical threads of every realm collectively one final time within the closing battle to save lots of Arathia.
For those who haven’t picked up the Stolen Crown sequence — and you’re keen on fairytale retelling — do your self a favor and bask in one among these standalone but interconnected tales. I promise that when you begin, you’ll want to learn all of them!
Congratulations to Tee Harlowe on the conclusion of a unbelievable sequence!