A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer

Parents need to know that A Curse So Dark and Lonely, the first book in the Cursebreaker series by bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer, is an imaginative variation on the 'Beauty and the Beast' theme - in this case, featuring a high-school senior with a bad leg from cerebral palsy and also a raft of family troubles, who finds herself snatched to the kingdom of Emberfall. Some drinking of alcohol (including the attempted kidnapping of a drunken young woman from a bar to Rhen's kingdom) and also healing herbal medicine.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Drinking, Drugs & Smoking in your kid's entertainment guide. Meanwhile, in Harper's world in D.C., her brother is doing enforcement work for the local loan shark to keep him from killing her family, including her terminally ill mother, because of a debt their long-fled father has racked up.ĭid you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Violence & Scariness in your kid's entertainment guide. Harper and others kill their would-be killers in combat swordplay and other hand-to-hand combat play a large role in the story, as do thoughts of murder and suicide as the monster's next appearance nears. Meanwhile, other rulers are seizing the moment to raze villages and slaughter their occupants one early scene has them threatening to kill children and rape their mother. Rhen's monster side is responsible for untold gore and destruction, including the slaughter of his own family and an unknown (but presumably large) number of others. Villain Lilith delights in inflicting pain, and several scenes involve her torturing victims, including Rhen.

A Curse So Dark and Lonely by Brigid Kemmerer