If my power began her curse, perhaps it’s what can lift it. Even though it was a power like mine that was responsible for her curse.īut with less than a year until that curse will kill her, any future I might see with Aurora is swiftly disintegrating-and she can’t stand to kiss yet another insipid prince. Aurora says I should be proud of my gifts. Humiliated and shamed by the same nobles who pay me to bottle hexes and then brand me a monster. One who isn’t bothered that I am Alyce, the Dark Grace, abhorred and feared for the mysterious dark magic that runs in my veins. Not the way they care about their jewels and elaborate parties and charm-granting elixirs. Let me tell you, no one in Briar actually cares about what happens to its princesses. You’ve heard this before, haven’t you? The handsome prince. A curse that could only be broken by true love’s kiss. Once upon a time, there was a wicked fairy who, in an act of vengeance, cursed a line of princesses to die.

But in this darkly magical retelling of “Sleeping Beauty,” true love is more than a simple fairy tale. Thanks to the team at Del Rey for the gorgeous album art!Ī princess isn’t supposed to fall for an evil sorceress.

But that love came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyce's vast power cannot seem to break, and their dream of the world they would have built together is nothing but ash.Īlyce vows to do anything to wake the woman she loves, even if it means descending into the monster Briar believed her to be.Curious about what MALICE sounds like? Here’s a playlist I curated over on Spotify. Princess Aurora saw through Alyce's thorny facade, earning a love that promised the dawn of a new age. Not even the one person who holds her heart. No one escapes the consequences of her wrath. Once a realm of decadence and beauty, Briar is now wholly Alyce's wicked domain. Did they break the curse or begin one? Sleeping Beauty's dark sorceress reclaims her story in this sequel to Malice.įeared and despised for the sinister power in her veins, Alyce has spent 100 years wreaking her revenge on the kingdom that made her an outcast.

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