An impressive sequel, equally as original and beautiful as the first book. Very well written and cleverly spun, this is a whole new book in its own right, so much has changed in the last century since the events in Malice.

Her view of the world was making me feel just as cynical and suspicious, the gears in my head turning, reading into every exchange and doubting every character, wondering which one will betray her next. Trying to figure out what will happen.
The whole book was interesting and twisty, constantly trying to figure out who is good or bad and whether Alyce is a villain after all.

I love Aurora and massively missed her for a lot of this book, though there were lots of new characters I grew to love during this book too. All of the imps, goblins, Chaos and Callow, even Derek, they’re all written fantastically.

I just love the strength of Alyce and Auroras relationship, how they still have imperfections, disagreements, take space away from each other, yet always are there for each other when it comes down to it. There’s no pretending it’s an easy perfect relationship at all, but there’s also no blame or toxicity.
They love each other enough to break curses, enough to step back and let each other do what they need to to be happy.

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"Sometimes I think we could compare our wounds for the next century and still discover fresh ones."
A shudder runs through me. That's exactly what I'd thought
about the war--how we don't heal because we like to bleed. ( )

A twist on Sleeping Beauty when the story is told from the life of Alice, the Dark Grace. As this is book 2 and I was excited to read it. I was disappointed on how it dragged to get to the good parts of the story. It was a slow start but got better as it went on. ( )

A complex follow up to Malice. If you're looking for that fairytale ending, you might not like the journey there and that might not be what you call it either. This book challenged me emotionally more than I wanted, but that's not a bad thing. ( )

Strong follow-up to a very enjoyable debut. While its predecessor was filled with the excitement of a budding romance, Misrule tackels the fallout when that romance is betrayed. Trust, revenge, forgiveness - our main characters are on a thorny path, and I appreciated the way the author kept them true to themselves the whole time. Will definitely read more by this author! ( )

This took me far too long to get through. It was such a good book but I sadly read it while going through a bad reading slump. Also, this wasn't what I expected this book was going to be like. Even though the ending was not how I thought or hoped it would end, I thought it was perfect. I will say if anything happened to Callow I was going to burn this book. I will also say the main's characters frustrated me to no end I still love them though. Neve and Torin were my favorite characters I love them. I also really liked the Imps so much. But overall I really enjoyed this story and it will live with me for a long time. ( )