Her Dark Enchantments

If there's anything I love more than a good retelling it's a breathtaking origin story and this book is both, with the bonus of making you feel for the Mistress of all Evil, and Dearie let me tell you, she's evil for a reason.

Myravelle is that rare character that wants to be good, strives to be part of a family, to just have a place to belong, she's willing to do whatever it takes to not rock the boat, not only does her life depend on it but so does her mothers and the lives of all the soldiers she's supposed to be waking up.

You see Myravelle has a very special gift, actually many gifts, but what makes her valuable to King Zylvain is her healing gift which allows her to use pain to access her magic but she has to draw pain from her Canvases, men that are chosen for this very purpose, what it does to them however is a pain she carries heavily on her heart every single day.

Then she decides to change the rules and look for a Canvas that she can love, and we find Byzarien, only one problem Byzarien has a pure hatred for the Faries, with good reason, and Myravelle is a very powerful Fairy.

Through ups and downs, they find themselves, how to love, and how much they're willing to fight for the ability to live a life together.

One betrayal after another pushes our characters further and further from where they feel safe, who they feel they can trust, and into an unknown world where from the very beginning their instincts tell them something is wrong.

Love can push us to do things we don't even think ourselves capable of and this story.... it broke my heart for both of them and so many others while making me cheer as a very twisted form of retribution is executed.

If you're looking for a book to take you into a tale that gives you insight into multiple intertwined stories we all know and love, or just want a story that will prove that good and evil and so much more complicated than we think then this is the book for you.

If it isn't evident by this point I loved this book. We have who we know as Maleficent, Rumplestiltskin, and Sleeping Beauty woven together seamlessly in a story that has a family tree as twisted as the roots in Myravelle's private burial grounds.

Thank you so much to Quill and Crow Publishing Group and NetGalley for providing a digital copy of this book.  I have voluntarily read and reviewed it and all thoughts and opinions are my own.