However, I was the age of 9 when Disney’s Beauty and the Beast came out. While I have read quite a few retellings, I can’t seem to remember reading another B and the B retelling before so that was another reason I was hopeful for this. I’m a big fan of fairytale retellings, so a Sapphic Beauty and the Beast retelling felt right up my alley. I’m happy to say that I really enjoyed this. Since I will be reading her new book next month, a Sapphic Robin Hood (I mean how awesome is that, I can’t wait!) so I decided to read Thorn now to get a feel for her writing style. I decided to read my first Anna Burke book. I’m still working on reading some books that were published in ‘19 before the year is over. Now that the holidays have calmed down some I can finally get back to reading. And the only thing more unbearable than endless winter is facing a lifetime of springs without the Huntress.Ĥ.25 Stars. There is only one problem―if she can find a way to lift the curse, she will have to return to the life she left behind.

Torn between her family loyalties, her guilty relief at escaping her betrothal to the charming but arrogant Avery Lockland, and her complicated feelings for the Huntress, Rowan must find a way to break the curse before it destroys everything she loves. Rowan, who once scorned the villagers for their superstitions, now finds herself at the heart of a curse with roots as deep as the mountains, ruled by an old magic that is as insidious as the touch of the winter rose. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose.

Compass Rose by Anna Burke