I loved this short prequel to Ms. Bazzar’s preceding novel, Heir of Ashes. The author provides a backstory on Yoncey Fosch, “… clan leader of the Unseelie Dhiultadh where he ruled with an iron fist and a warm heart.” In Heir of Ashes, we were given small details about Roxanne Fosch’s father. Here Ms. Bazzar expands on his history, personality, and moral qualities. “He was a man of few words and many wisdoms, a charming charisma…a man of his words, loyal and honest to a fault, considerate and yet fearsome ruler…”
For all Fosch’s wisdom, he had no choice but to make an unwise decision to save his brother and clan’s lives from a merciless plague. Oberon, a Fee Royalty, would give Fosch the binding stone to cure his people on one condition, he sires a hybrid offspring with a human, interspecies breeding. A bargain Fosch struggled with. “A human hybrid. Nothing but an abomination.”
Ms. Bazzar does a great job at world building in this fantasy piece— highlighting several clan’s differences, conflict, and divide, and Fosch’s own bloodline, and family dynamics. Ms. Bazzar has rather an imagination, with all the different species and creatures she’s able to conceive in this story.
After reading Heir of Ashes, I was thrilled to see the inception of Roxanne Fosch, and the love her father possesses for her mother, Bella (witch or human) there was a message there. Love is possible between races, more appropriately, species in this story. Much was revealed and explained, questions Roxanne had about her family in the Heir of Ashes are all illuminated with a superb backstory.
The Curse was well-paced given its genre and purpose. The plot of the story held my attention to the end, wanting to know the outcome of this bargain between Fosch and Oberon. I am not generally a reader of Fantasy, but Ms. Bazzar has changed that. I can’t wait to continue on Roxanne’s journey in the sequel. For the Fantasy lover, I highly recommend this book, and for those looking for an interesting and thrilling read check out Ms. Bazzar’s The Curse.
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