Mira has lived her whole life with secrets. How did her
parents die? Why is she prohibited from returning to her birthplace? `Why does
she get the feeling everyone she knows is lying to her? When she finally breaks away and makes it to
her home town of Beau Rivage she discovers that more secrets than ever. She falls quickly for Blue, a man everyone
says is dangerous, but she feels like she can’t pull away from him. Life in Beau Rivage is strange, just like a
fairy tale…literally. She soon finds that all the residents of Beau Rivage are
fated, cursed to live out legendary fairy tales, and she is beginning think hers
has a Grimm ending.
Reimagined fairy tales are the new dystopias, vampires,
fallen angels, whatever the big thing this month is! They are in loads of movies, TV shows, and
books, so it can be tough knowing which of the 3,486,794 fairy tale retellings
released a month to give your precious time to. Fortunately, Kill Me Softly is something rather
special. It takes the fairy tales before
Disney cleaned them up, finds the odd fascination with love and death and
blends it into a modern romance. I think the novels twists work pretty well,
but if you are familiar with old fairy tales, you’ll know some of the major ones
fairly early on. However, once the book
is all about the strangling hand of inexorable fate, then that actually adds its
own level of enjoyment. The main fun is
seeing the skewed fairy tales and trying to guess how everything will turn out.
Underneath the romance and mystery is a look at the dark and dangerous side of
fairy tale love. I think Cross does a
really good job at looking at te relationship between real life abusive
relationships and the fairy tale like logic that people trapped in them often
use. This is a great, twisted, dark
romance. I highly recommend it to anyone
looking for something unique.
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