Thorn was named to the American Library Association's 2020 Over the Rainbow Fiction Longlist. And the only thing more unbearable than endless winter is facing a lifetime of springs without the Huntress. On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan’s father returns from an il. There is only one problem-if she can find a way to lift the curse, she will have to return to the life she left behind. Read 200 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Torn between her family loyalties, her guilty relief at escaping her betrothal to the charming but arrogant Avery Lockland, and her complicated feelings for the Huntress, Rowan must find a way to break the curse before it destroys everything she loves. Rowan, who once scorned the villagers for their superstitions, now finds herself at the heart of a curse with roots as deep as the mountains, ruled by an old magic that is as insidious as the touch of the winter rose. Tall, cruel, and achingly beautiful, she brings Rowan back with her to a mountain fastness populated solely by the creatures of the hunt. Me love for beautiful literary texts in the form of storytelling was instantly satiated by Burke's aesthetically structured, lyrical passage. To say the book captivated me was an understatement. The rose is followed by the Huntress, a figure out of legend. Never read anything by this author ever before. On a cold day deep in the heart of winter, Rowan's father returns from an ill-fated hunting trip bearing a single, white rose.
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