And above is a young man who isn’t afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, it’s not just a story.Īs the day of her twin brother’s wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she’s willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time.
There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. Melissa Bashardoust’s Girl, Serpent, Thorn is “an alluring feminist fairy tale” ( Kirkus) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse.
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