![]() While he’s not a villain by any means, he treats his children as commodities, and is preoccupied with returning to some status in society. ![]() Rowan’s father, a failed merchant turned aspiring fur trader, has had no choice but to flee the city with his three daughters and start a new life to escape his debts. A very cold, very isolated place that one wouldn’t necessarily choose to live. This dark, Grimm style and very gay retelling of “Beauty and the Beast” kept me reading well past midnight to get just “one more page!” Thorn, with its complex characters and their histories, goes so much further than just subbing in perpetually hungry wolves and a large ice bear for talking candles and singing teapots.īurke does a great job with world building, and it doesn’t take long to get a sense of where you and our young protagonist, Rowan, have just been dropped. ![]() My recent infatuation with the Compass Rose series should have been all the warning I needed not to start an Anna Burke book just before bedtime. ![]()
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