Ember by Bettie Sharpe

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Genre: Romance / Fantasy

Audience: Female, Adult

Updated: Completed

Content Advisory

Occasional Sexual Content

Occasional Coarse Language

Occasional Violence

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Overall Rating: 7.241

Average Rating: 6.5 (Guests), 8.75 (Members)

Ranking: #7

Rating Count: 10 (6 Guests, 4 members)

1 indicates a weighted rating.

Synopsis

"Charm is a curse. Love is a fire. This story is no fairytale."

Everyone loves Prince Charming. They have to—he’s cursed. Every man must respect him. Every woman must desire him. One look, and all is lost.

Ember would rather carve out a piece of her soul than be enslaved by passions not her own. She turns to the dark arts to save her heart and becomes the one woman in the kingdom able to resist the Prince’s Charm.

Poor girl. If Ember had spent less time studying magic and more time studying human nature, she might have guessed that a man who gets everything and everyone he wants will come to want the one woman he cannot have.

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Fairy Tale, Heroine, Magic, Witch Heroine

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"a fairy tale as it should be"

Rating: 9 / 10

Ember is a twisted, dark-edged story; a fairy tale as it should be, with all the gory bits left in.

I raced through the story, read it all in one sitting. It’s short and engaging, and written in a conversational first-person that draws the reader right in. And—let’s be honest—any story that opens with the words “sucker punched” has me at “suck”.

The premise intrigued…Read More

"Cinderella Punches You in the Gut"

Rating: 9 / 10

I love the violent, anti-romance twist of this retelling. It was not as violent and dark as I expected from the description, but quite compellingly realistic.

I love the contrasts to the Disney-fied version of Cinderella. The step-family is truly family, and beauty is not blonde and demure and dainty. I particularly enjoyed the author’s take on witchcraft and Wise Women, and how it affected…Read More

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