Together, they navigate the opulent world of the courtly elite, where beauty and power reign and no one can be trusted. When the king orders her to guard his son Armand-the man she hates most-Rachelle forces Armand to help her hunt for the legendary sword that might save their world. Three years later, Rachelle has given her life to serving the realm, fighting deadly creatures in an effort to atone. After an illicit meeting goes dreadfully wrong, Rachelle is forced to make a terrible choice that binds her to the very evil she had hoped to defeat. But she was also reckless-straying from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness. When Rachelle was fifteen, she was good-apprenticed to her aunt and in training to protect her village from dark magic. There are still flaws in this book, but an author who gets better with every story is one I’m definitely willing to follow.įirst sentence: “In all your life, your only choice,” Aunt Léonie said to her once, “is the path of needles or the path of pins.” In Crimson Bound, Hodge proves that she can write complicated characters with complicated relationships, as well as create her own mythology. I wasn’t completely convinced with Cruel Beauty, Rosamund Hodge’s debut fairy tale retelling, but then I read her short spin-off Gilded Ashes and really quite liked it.
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