


I’m a sucker for a BATB retelling, so when I saw this pop up on NetGalley, I knew I wanted to give it a go. Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for providing a free copy in exchange for an honest review. This will be a short spoiler free review. If you like plucky heroines, enchanted romance, and riveting retellings, then you’ll adore Esme Rome’s captivating story. The Rose Kiss is the mesmerizing first novel in the Fairy Tale Love Stories YA fantasy series. Entranced by the estate’s mystical marvels, she discovers choosing to stay may mean giving her heart to the monstrous owner and fulfilling the evil curse…Ĭan Lana survive her wicked destiny and claim her happily-ever-after? When the seer names her as the Belmorta, a woman doomed to love a beast and bring famine and destruction, Lana flees in hopes of reversing her dark fortune.Įscaping the wrath of the frightened villagers, she finds salvation in a seemingly empty magical castle. But things don’t go as planned when her father takes her to the local prophet, looking for insight into her many failed courtships. Lana Moreau, beautiful daughter of a bankrupt nobleman, is desperate for a suitor with a brain. Can their bond bloom in the face of a sinister enchantment? Title: The Rose Kiss: Beauty and the Beast Retold
