Everybody has a lot of moral grit, like literally every single character does. And therell be like Dragons Teeth, you know, and Ill look at it and be like, Oh, that looks familiar. There are no secrets that Im keeping. And then my last question for you is so then you know, youve got this book youre working on, Misrule is coming out. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. So like, youre sitting down, and youre like, Im gonna tackle this retelling. I imagine extremely fun to write. Alyces journey through this second book is like a roller coaster. And then like the lowest test has clear blood. Sometimes. This story shows the characters at their best and quite often their worst with everyone having ulterior motives, even Alyce. B&N: Love that image. As an LGBTQ+ author, Heather is passionate about telling and championing queer stories . It was annoying and frustrating. It was refreshing, a bit different, entertaining. B&N: So lets talk about magic. Still, the many twists and dark moral questions keep the pages flying. The Imps greet her with a cheer. Within her heart, she keeps the memory of a waking Aurora alive, for Aurora herself sleeps a slumber unable to be broken, constant for a hundred years. Sort of reminiscent of an iconic ending in a certain book called Carrie. I'm honestly struggling between a 3 and 3.5. It also didnt end the way I thought it would, which was a nice touch. Just for joining youll get personalized recommendations on your dashboard daily and features only for members. Its just this like, again, a dichotomy that we have, even with, like historical women where theyre either Madonnas or theyre these temptresses. So yeah, I think the idea of the Henry and Anne as being a love story is a complete fallacy, because its like, you dont cut somebodys head off if youre in love with them. Overall, Misrule was a lot more enjoyable than Malice, but I wished for a more mature main character. I had always heard that and I was like, oh, its gonna be hard. Like, I just really dont think that was in her sights. I joined maybe a year ago, maybe close to the week because I remember hearing about tick tock all the time. And then of course, Im going to ask you like, what your favorite TikTok video is that youve done. This is a very clever, . The tension between Alyce and Aurora was so incredibly satisfying, and I found myself agreeing with both of them. It's like watching bad slash horror, except the girl says "I really should pick up that machete the attacker dropped right there and make sure they're dead before turning my back" and then turning their back. And like in 24 hours, it had like 100,000 views, book spikes, it was just so crazy. Misrule really opened up the world for me. But I didnt realize I could delete comments. Heather Walter: Of course. Really, though, this is the story of two groups who have seemed to have been at odds with each other practically since the beginning of time. Because some platforms is very toxic now, like definitely dont love being on those spaces. I just cant. I just cant. And you know why so many people are drawn to her drawn to the story. I had to learn about, like, you know, trends and how to like, you dont just use the songs that you like, Heather like, you have to use the sounds that like people are actually listening to in that moment. And then my agent sibling and friend, Chloe Gong, was all over TikTok but I mean, shes, you know, much younger than I am. Quick View. Story is great, beautiful and just something i enjoyed. Of Mistress Nimara and how she turned beastie and toppled the fat old king and rescued us Imps from the Fae courts! After getting more than half way through, the hope just feels empty. So I dont know her her last name, but its coming out with Del Rey, I think in June or July, definitely summer. And so now theyre like the bad ones or whatever. So I always had a lot of questions I was always drawn to that villain. Awful. I don't *like* being in the head of Alyce anyone. Does true love break curses or begin them? Thank you so much for stopping by! Yeah, future Heather can do that. I liked that it ended up feeling natural and Alyce and Aurora just didnt fall into each other. It has enough frustration but delivered with the resolution. But then somehow we had to have the Vela who came up. And so I mean, I think the question at the heart of the book is, what is evil? With everything Ive ever say? A broken Fae orb of the Vila crest surrounded by a circle of raven feathers.I knew that court, Mortania whispers from her den. But Im fairly certain it was written before the time of the Briar Queens, maybe even before Leythana.Regan disappears into the wardrobe, which is a cavern unto itself. I think she made some bold moves. Theyre just so intriguing. And thats what I love about it, personally. And I was just like, oh, wow, okay, so that was kind of like the hook that got me in and then I started I did, I had to, like learn I have Chloe can publish our DMS one day of how I would message her and ask her about like, what is the etiquette for dueting? HW: I think for me, I honestly think its because the villains do what we wish we could do. HW: Its gonna be great. B&N: You framed it. US$16.72 US$18.00. Alyce reigns in the realm of Briar. HW: Because I dont want to give too much away either. I read Malice in one sitting. I very often found myself on Alyces side, though, so it was really a great deal of fun to get this Sleeping Beauty story from her eyes. Enhancements you chose aren't available for this seller. Misrule Spoilers. Change). B&N: Thats amazing. She catches them midair, and they are beside themselves with glee.Of all the surprises of the last century, Callows steadfast presence is by far the best. ), so thank you! Even though its the Dark Court and they did some terrible things for themselves, I really felt there was a lot of heart and love, and a firm resolve to protect their home. Im sure I wont be the only one!Richelle Mead, internationally bestselling author of Vampire AcademyAbsolutely dazzling! The magnetic, unlikely love story between Princess Aurora and the dark sorceress Alyce continues as a curse threatens to dismantle their connection in the spellbinding sequel to Malice. Old man Muppets. I have always been very fascinated by her. I was also comparing it to like Twitter and Insta, which are very hard to kind of crack those algorithms and get people being or stuff whatever they Yeah, and it was very fast. But I enjoyed the Dark Court the most. Loved it. Also keep in mind, dont read this for the romance plot because its barely there, despite it being the focus of the first story. Luckily a few of the members of my book club wanted to read this so we did a After reading and thoroughly enjoying Malice last year I could not wait to read the sequel to this duology. Getting to hang out with glucagon. Where the first book felt like it was constrained by the events of the movie, Misrule felt like it allowed the story to breathe and become its own thing. I think what she wanted was she had ideas of her own, and she wanted to implement them. Works which have used it as a tag: of sea and starlight by driluth Fandoms: . They each really tried in their own ways, and they each had their own plots and manipulations. My personal favorite are the imps, which is basically impulsivity, personified. Misrule was a really fascinating read, and Id like to say I loved it more than Malice, so I hope you enjoy it when you get around to it. Im really sure. If you go into this expecting some happy ending for Alyce and Aurora, youll be disappointed too. What does that been like for you? And so from there, I think its going to be the fastest novela Ill ever have written. So I started kind of mapping out. And I think that kind of just goes to what you were saying about how I think I always say that, like, I wish this space like existed when I was younger, when I was teenager, obviously, I was talking about these books and talking about authors and loving these worlds that it was just crazy to me to think that other people didnt know they existed. Within her heart, she keeps the memory of a waking Aurora alive, for Aurora herself sleeps a slumber unable to be broken, constant for a hundred years. . Reprinted by permission. Honestly, like having that duology out. (Contains spoilers for Misrule.) I loved the first in the series. A full transcript of this episode is available here. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. Im 34 I did not consider myself as belonging to TikTok whatsoever. In the much-praised Malice, librarian Walter's thorny reimagining of Sleeping Beauty, Princess Aurora saw the best in the Dark Grace Alyce, which others didn't see. B&N: Yep. I really appreciate it! But it is a love that came with a heavy price: Aurora now sleeps under a curse that even Alyces vast power cannot seem to break. Witches aren't scary they just have a little magic. 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, No Import Fees Deposit & $11.20 Shipping to Germany. But no, it is like soul sucking difficult. HW: Im lucky enough to have a copy of The Final Strife. The icing on her failure cake? I can point to, you know, some modern historians who just really despise her who feel like she came in with these designs to steal the throne to get the man to do whatever it is that she needed to do. The new characters are fun but I'm started to feel little connection forming. And so I really hope it stays that way. But this idea from like rewatching Tudors sounds like. Yeah, because of it, like just crazy stuff. And I think that I honestly think that thats such a secret truth for a lot of us. So its not necessarily like me wanting to paint and as this victim because I dont think so. Change). Very few sequels live up to its original, this was absolute perfection!. I like made it about Malice. B&N: Amazing. Im just like, slapped it on TikTok like, I didnt use the sound, I didnt do anything. I loved it!Sarah Beth Durst, award-winning author of the Queens of Renthia seriesA truly original and clever retelling of a classic that had me racing to the endyoull never look at Sleeping Beauty the same way again.S. A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, she is both a former English teacher and a current librarian. I think also, its just something about these morally gray characters. Im gonna ask you to talk about your head bobbing video. And I saw that idea. I wanted more maturity and a harder edge to her. So where did you start with that?HW: For the Graces and the magic system in general, I think one of the tiniest early germs of this story was from actually a different story where I was thinking about the idea of like, the Grecian graces and how they all have, like, certain attributes and certain abilities. Fairy tale lovers of all ages will be thrilled.Publishers Weekly (starred review)A beautifully imaginative and feminist retelling of a fairy tale so often swept into the dark . I enjoyed all the secrets and getting to know so many fun and interesting characters. Can I go home? And so it is kind of a loosely loosely loosely based rise of Anne Boleyn plus how did the Evil Queen kind of become the Evil Queen and in the book it follows a character named Eilis, she is a witch and in this kingdom, which is at times were celebrated, theyre persecuted its kind of back and forth. Yay! Full of love, power, and betrayal, Malice is as compelling as a spell, as captivating as an enchantment, and as fascinating and delicious as a fairy-tale curse. And I would love if you would give us just a little taste and an update on where youre at with that. And we dont just make them out of a vacuum. Misrule: Malice Duology, Book 2 Audible Audiobook - Unabridged Heather Walter (Author), Ann Marie Gideon (Narrator), & 1 more 510 ratings Editors' pick Best Science Fiction & Fantasy See all formats and editions Kindle $12.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook $0.00 Free with your Audible trial Does true love break curses or begin them? The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Misrule are 9781984818690, 1984818694 and the print ISBNs are 9781984818683, 1984818686. And what would it take for me to really lash out? Youre here so I can talk to you about it again. The Lord Ambassador Endlewild treated me like I was vermin when I was the Dark Grace, poisoning my mind against my own kind. . And no one will escape the consequences of her wrath. I like I kind of feel like as I was reading it, I couldnt help but think like, how do I work this into my daily vocabulary without anyone looking at me like I was a nut case? You just always do the right thing. . And I was like, you literally made that up Heather. The Dark Grace is dead. What that experience has been like with malice and being on having this book sort of take off and just get that love from that community. And like a couple hours later, it had like, 10s of 1000s of views. Maybe, impossibly, even something about breaking curses.I havent even eaten breakfast, I say to the Imps, hoping theyll scurry off and leave me to explore the book in peace.But the first one fishes a stone out of his pocket, tosses it into the air, and claps. Filled with emotion, love and friendship as well as war, betrayal and deceit I could not stop reading and it felt so good to be back in Alyces world. And so at the time, I was struggling with plantar fasciitis, which if youve never had, I do not wish it on anybody but I would have its basically like your heel hurts all the time. Like, its as silly as video Ive ever done ever. I think youre so much fun. My, I call them my old ladies foot stretches and so Im like on my stepladder, stretching my foot out looking at the TikTok discover trying to figure out like what my contents gonna be for that day. And I was like, okay, like this could work because Alice is the grace who doesnt fit into the graces as we think of them as being beautiful and perfect, whatever its like so this could potentially work but then again, and every single Sleeping Beauty retelling, we have the good fairies, and then we have the single Dark Fairy and so the good fairies grant these attributes of beauty with grace, all of that and so I liked the idea of calling them the graces because they are gifted that way each one of them has a specific breed of magic that Oh, I can I can make you an elixir for beauty or you know, this, that whatever. I'm a history and mythology fanatic with a head full of "but what if it happened THIS way instead" moments. In the first book the characters you like tried to work together to solve their problems. Desperate to find a cure Alyce, with the help of Regan, welcomes other creatures to the palace who have faced the same torment she has and she starts to build her own court. If you're looking for a fairytale that brings together elements of high fantasy, Labyrinth, and a less-than-traditional romance novel, Misrule is for you. And a big part of that is the community just not attacking me for being myself just like supporting and being like that. Its day 10 since my purchase on Misrule, Im on page 66 and I am calling it a day. And I was like, Oh, it could be fun if like, I wrote a story where Ive got the graces, but then Ive got this one who doesnt fit in, I keep all of my ideas in like a note, and so when I was thinking about this story is kind of going back and looking at it. To redeem, copy and paste the code during the checkout process. I do think that Anne Boleyn was a very early feminist as much as one could have been a feminist in the 1300s. A book about people who love books, a reworking of Beauty and the Beast, a couple of murders between friends, a deadly game of hide-and-seek, and memoirs from some of our [], Its like if Tim Burton decorated Versailles for Halloween Heather Walters queer retelling of Sleeping Beauty kicked off with Malice, which we think of as more than just a remix of a familiar storyIts a complex, character-driven story with action, political intrigue, betrayal, and of course, a slow burn romanceHeathers closing out her Malice duology [].
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