The Book:
Title: Brutal Curse
Author: Casey L. Bond
Genre: YA Epic Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling
Editor: Stacy Sanford/ The Girl with the Red Pen
Cover Designer: Melissa Stevens/ The Illustrated Author Design Services
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb: Prince Carden of Tierney lost his home, family, and claim to the throne in one fell swoop when he rebelled against his father for a cause he knew was right. Instead of wallowing in despair, he embarks on a new journey, starting a new life on the Southern Isle. When he finds himself caught in a web woven by the famously ruthless fae queen, Coeur, he insults her and she vows to teach him the most difficult and heart-breaking lesson he will ever learn: that humans are incapable of love, and that hearts are beastly things.Arabella wasn’t really living, she was existing and surviving as best she could. A chance encounter with Carden changes everything for her, but the deadly game he’s dragged her into might cost her life.
Still, she agrees to play. The rules the fae queen gives them are vague, and it’s obvious there are things Queen Coeur isn’t telling them. She’s sure of it. But what she does know is that together, she and Carden must pass a series of tests and trials. If they fail, game over. But if they succeed, she just might be able to restore her family and carve out the life she’s always envisioned.



Original Tale:
Beauty and The Beast was first published in 1740 in French by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and it was titled La Belle et la Bete. In the original, it was actually a faerie that turned the prince in to a beast.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was written by Lewis Carrol in 1865. It was actually considered to be in the literary nonsense genre, as it plays with logic through Alice’s fall in to a rabbit hole and meeting of anthropomorphic creatures (having human qualities or emotions).

Award-winning author Casey L. Bond resides in Milton, West Virginia with her husband and their two beautiful daughters. When she’s not busy being a domestic goddess and chasing her baby girls, she loves to write young adult and new adult fiction.
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That is definitely a cover that needs a dramatic reveal. It’s sooo nice! And very suited to falling down a rabbit hole, haha.
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It totally is! I am so glad Casey uses this cover artist because she does some amazing work!
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Agreed!
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