![]() ![]() There’s a lot that can be said about the delightfully dark fantasy that is Malice. Not to mention, there seems to be an evil far more insidious within the palace walls themselves. The catch is that the royal bloodline Aurora is part of is cursed: all female descendents, unless they receive true love’s kiss by the age of 21, will die.Īlyce needs to find a way to break the curse, learn the true extent of her magic, and find a way to free herself from her status as the Dark Grace, all while dealing with and evading the three tiring Graces she lives with. However, after developing an unlikely friendship with the crown princess Aurora and receiving a chance to train with another of her kind, Alyce is given new hope to change her fate forever. Because of this, she is feared and despised, and while people pay for her skills, she is known only as the “Dark Grace.” However, Alyce is part-Vila, an extinct race able to do dark magic without the loss of vitality that Graces experience as their magic sources are used up. In the book, Graces are humans able to use their golden blood, gifted by the fae, to do small acts of magic in the form of potions and elixirs. ![]() The story centers around Alyce, a girl with magic unlike any other of those in Briar. Malice, written by Heather Walter, falls explicitly within this category as a sapphic retelling of Sleeping Beauty. I’ve always loved fairytales and all their different retellings ever since I was a kid. ![]()
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