📚 MALICE is a Sleeping Beauty retelling that folds in a complex magic system and high society world. I was drawn in immediately, needing to know more about how the Graces' powers worked and how in a matriarchy the women were still held back.
📚 I loved Alyce and Aurora's vibe together and how they encouraged each other to want more than their lot in life.
📚 Some stretches of the book are a bit exposition-heavy, but as I said, it is a pretty complex world. I would happily read more novels set in other corners of this story.
📚 One thing I did find jarring is that several men who are described as either bumbling or evil are also portrayed as fat, and in a clearly meant-to-be-gross way.