Marissa Meyer

Gild and Serilda are finally together - just what they wanted - but it's forever locked in a castle and half-dead. And Gild is only just coming to terms with the fact that his entire family is dead and he is imprisoned in the castle that was once his home. He's the butt of the Erlking's cruellest joke. Not the best foundation for a new romance.

Cursed

Yesss my favorite little treat in a fantasy book - setting description of an old secluded library! 

Caroline Clutterbuck Kapulkin

After that, she found the library without incident, and it was all she could have hoped for. Shelves upon shelves of leather-bound books, each one inked and colored painstakingly by hand, their spines stamped with gold, many so old their pages were brittle. There were scrolls, too, and loose sheaves of parchment and bundles of ancient maps drawn on stretched animal skins. Grimoires and bestiaries, books on alchemy and mathematics and astronomy. 

After hours of climbing up and down the rickety ladders, Serilda had amassed a stack of intriguing titles—fairy tales and mythologies and a fascinating study on how artistic interpretations of the old gods had changed over the centuries. She claimed a tufted chaise beside the window, where outside she could see the alder tree, is leaves still a deep green, even while the forest beyond turned crimson and gold.

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