The Dragon's Curse is the sequel to The Dragon's Price, which I totally reviewed here: CLICK THE LINK OF MAGICCC (maybe not all magic but another book review!)
If you don't want anything spoiled for The Dragon's Price, don't read this review. Cool?
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An amazon summary, "An action-packed fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Julie Kagawa's Talon and Renée Ahdieh's The Wrath and the Dawn about a princess who must fight the dragons trying to destroy her world.
Six months ago, Princess Sorrowlynn stood beside Prince Golmarr to defeat the glass dragon. But when the prince almost killed her after inheriting the dragon's curse of hatred, he went into hiding to keep Sorrow safe . . . from himself.
Now the princess has been training to become a great warrior, with the hope of finding Golmarr. But her search proves difficult when she discovers she has been wed to the prince of an enemy kingdom. Desperate to end her forced marriage and be reunited with her true love, Sorrow must find a way to escape her captor husband. But there's just one more dangerous obstacle in her way. A two-headed dragon is hunting her and will stop at nothing until she is dead.
Can Sorrow summon the courage to wield the only sword that can defeat the beast and save her world from the destruction of the dragon's curse?" AMAZON LINK OF JUSTICE
To recap. In The Dragon's Price, both Princess Sorrrowlynn and Prince Golmarr slayed a dragon. The princess gained the treasure of knowledge, and the prince gained the treasure of hatred...for the princess. But don't worry about it, they're hopelessly in love with each other. But Golmarr hates her...and left to figure out if there's a way to not hate her. It's fine....right?
So Princess Sorrowlynn has been staying in Golmarr's kingdom with his family, training with their warriors, and waiting for news of Golmarr. But some armed forces start appearing, and it turns out a third country, who appears to be a little power hungry crazy, with her father, and demands to meet.
Princess Sorrowlynn goes out to meet the prince of the power hungry crazy country, and her father... who reveal that she's been married to the new prince. Sorrowlynn is understandably outraged, a fight breaks out, one of Golmarr's brothers is killed, and Sorrowlynn escapes. Only to be captured by the new prince. Who takes her back to his country. Where, lo and behold, Golmarr is hanging out, reading all the books in the library (ayyyyyyyye) and researching a way to remove the dragon's curse.
That's enough, super glossed over summary without trampling into spoiler land.
So in this book, we see a lot more of the dragon history, and of the Golmarr/Sorrowlynn dynamic, but the pacing of the book felt really weird to me. There also seemed to be a lot of inconsistent emotional turmoil. PLUS! There was a wizard in the last book who is mentioned in this book, and seems to be this mystic far into the future, predicting everything in just such a way, that when the plot starts getting a little iffy, it was suddenly the mechanisms of the wizard, so the wizard seems to have become a plot device bandage, which is pretty sad. The new prince was also entirely fascinating; back story build up, get a sense of his morals amongst his father's madness, and all that good jazz... but seemed to have fallen out of the picture. I really hope he comes back into play in book 3.
Also, there was more magical elements to the story (which we saw in the last book), but they felt kind of haphazardly thrown in there.
There's going to be a third book (there has to be with the ending), and I'm going to read it. I'm going to go into it with some more reservations than last time, but I'm still pretty excited.
Happy reading!
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