Welcome back to the FYA Reading Challenge! This month’s prompt is to read a book featuring a curse!
While curses in books can happen at any time in any genre, it just felt right to save this prompt for the spookiest month of the year.
If you’re looking for inspo, check out our curses tag, and peep the suggestions below to get you started!
Reading Challenge Recs
This is a loose retelling of Beauty and the Beast, so I think you can guess at the curse in A Curse So Dark and Lonely (Cursebreakers #1) by Brigid Kemmerer.
The Lady Rogue by Jenn Bennett features an Indiana Jones–esque setting complete with Vlad the Impaler’s cursed ring and fancy train travel. It’s a wild, fun ride!
Soraya was cursed as a baby so that her touch kills any who dare get close in Girl, Serpent, Thorn by Melissa Bashardoust.
The Buried and the Bound (The Buried and the Bound #1) by Rochelle Hassan has a little bit of everything, including a character cursed to lose all their memories.
This lush fantasy set in ancient Ireland is about a sister who loves her brothers (cursed to become swans forever) so much that she’ll give up everything to save them. Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters #1) by Juliet Marillier is one of my ride-or-die books.
A gift to create beauty turns deadly in Wicked Like a Wildfire by Lana Popovic.
Which book(s) are you planning to read for this prompt? Let us know in the comments!
