Name: Bitterthorn
Rating: 3.6875 (8 reviews)
ISBN: 9781839132957

Kat Dunn

Bitterthorn

Miryam 

Misery was a creeping thing, like the dew settling on grass or the cold fingers of frost meeting me in my bed at night and crackling the insides of my windows. I had longed to be left alone, to escape the lie of my family, only to discover this was a different kind of poison. Slow acting, but lethal. At first it numbed me, pleasure leaching from my days like a summer leaf draining of sap to greet the autumn. Then loneliness came, a creeping oily stain that stopped me from enjoying it at all.

She struggled with life as though it wasn't her natural home.

The only joy I found left to me was in bringing nature inside.

Mt father's voice, the way he bit his words, roused an instinctive fear in me and I slipped back outside.

Jump, don't jump. None of it mattered. I was done here.

"So confident, when you know nothing of me. Nothing of what you are walking towards."

I met her gaze, the beetle black eyes and blood red lips. "No. But I know what I am walking away from, and that is enough."

I had thought I could welcome death, but now it faced me I found myself a liar.

It wad the single most disconcerting feeling, like missing a step going down stairs, expecting solid ground and encountering only a lurching void.

My arm throbbed, and I felt suddenly foolish and ashamed of resorting to my childish violence against myself.

"Are you planning to have any bread with that butter?"

"It makes me feel better to remember that time is so much bigger and older than I am. I am not alone because I am a part of it."

Home lay just as much behind me as it did ahead.

I wanted to stay within the fantasy of those memories. Every lonely, difficult moment turned sweet with age.

Could have been a bit better. But, it was a good love story. Of sacrificd, learning and secrets. 

Jodie Reads

pupas

Just read it. You'll be doing yourself a favour. Am still processing

Vivien Luisa Seifert

Blumwald is a town overshadowed by an ancient curse: in a sinister castle in the depths of the wild wood lives a monstrous Witch. Once a generation, she comes to claim a companion to return with her – never to be seen again. Now that time is drawing near once more... Mina, daughter of the duke, is grieving and lonely. She has lost all hope of any future for herself in Blumwald. So when the Witch demands her next companion, Mina offers herself up – though she has no idea what fate awaits her. Stranded with her darkly alluring captor, the mystery of what happened to the previous companions draws Mina into the heart of a terrifying secret that could save her life, or end it.

This book was so good it was thought consuming. Nothing was more important to me then turning the next page. I didn't eat, I haven't slept, and anything that needed to be done was done while I held the book to my face, still reading. 

this sapphic enemies to lovers novel had a lot of parallels to the beauty and the beast. personally i’m not a big fan of a first person narrator, but kat dunn managed to pull me into her magical world regardless and i was hooked! bitterthorn is the found family book i didn’t knew i needed and i can highly recommend it to everyone, considering it is easy to understand without being shallow.

Bitterthorn

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