brigid kemmerer a curse so dark and lonely

When I was designing Harper’s character, I knew I wanted to look at the idea of curses, and how sometimes what seems like a curse to one person might not be a curse at all to someone else. When I was growing up, I was close friends with a girl named Erin. Can you tell us how you came to write about the condition, and how it influences Harper’s character?

Your protagonist, Harper, has Cerebral Palsy. Let’s start with the book! Can you tell us a little about A CURSE SO DARK AND LONELY?īrigid Kemmerer: A Curse So Dark and Lonely is about a girl named Harper who is kidnapped and whisked away to the fantasy land of Emberfall, where, if she wants to have a chance at getting home, she has to help Prince Rhen break a curse that turns him into a monster at the end of each season. Let’s dig in and talk more about this exciting take on Beauty and the Beast, you and your writing process. Your latest book, A CURSE SO DARK AND LONELY, just came out at the end of January and is already a NYT Bestseller. Welcome to The Children’s Book Review, Brigid! We’re so excited to have a chat with you here at TCBR. But powerful forces are standing against Emberfall … and it will take more than a broken curse to save Harper, Rhen, and his people from utter ruin.Denise Mealy | The Children’s Book Review | March 13, 2019 And as Rhen realizes Harper is not just another girl to charm, his hope comes flooding back. But as she spends time with Rhen in this enchanted land, she begins to understand what’s at stake. But when she tries to save someone else on the streets of Washington, DC, she’s instead somehow sucked into Rhen’s cursed world.Ī prince? A monster? A curse? Harper doesn’t know where she is or what to believe. With her father long gone, her mother dying, and her brother barely holding their family together while constantly underestimating her because of her cerebral palsy, she learned to be tough enough to survive.

Nothing has ever been easy for Harper Lacy. That was before he destroyed his castle, his family, and every last shred of hope. But that was before he learned that at the end of each autumn, he would turn into a vicious beast hell-bent on destruction.

Cursed by a powerful enchantress to repeat the autumn of his eighteenth year over and over, he knew he could be saved if a girl fell for him.

It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall.

Brigid kemmerer a curse so dark and lonely