Someone is cursed — and the plot is how to break it.
A curse gives a story a clock and a rule: true love's kiss, a riddle, a task by midnight. Fairy tales run on curses, and modern romantasy loves a cursed love interest whose only hope is the protagonist.
Sarah J. Maas
Sarah J. Maas
Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle
Diana Wynne Jones
Brandon Sanderson
Stephen King
Holly Black
Stephanie Garber
Agatha Christie
J.R.R. Tolkien
Gail Carson Levine
Nora Roberts
Hafsah Faizal
Lois McMaster Bujold
Roshani Chokshi
Melissa De La Cruz
Jessica Townsend
Colleen Houck
Elizabeth Lim
E. T. A. Hoffmann
Kendare Blake
Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Kevin Hearne, Luke Daniels
Nora Roberts
Christine Feehan
Roshani Chokshi
Rosamund Hodge
Nora Roberts
James Patterson, David Ellis
Amish Tripathi
Jayne Ann Krentz
Colleen Houck
Colleen Houck
Sergeĭ Lukʹi͡anenko
Ryka Aoki
R. A. Salvatore
Stewart, Paul, Chris Riddell
Jayne Ann Krentz
Emily M. Danforth
Zen Cho
Nicole Jordan
Colleen Houck
Jessica Day George
Alice Hoffman
Renée Ahdieh
Someone is cursed — and the plot is how to break it. A curse gives a story a clock and a rule: true love's kiss, a riddle, a task by midnight. Fairy tales run on curses, and modern romantasy loves a cursed love interest whose only hope is the protagonist.
Popular curse breaking books include A Court of Mist and Fury (2014), A Court of Thorns and Roses (2013), A Study in Scarlet (1887), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1900) and Howl's Moving Castle (1986).