Can’t-Wait Wednesday: Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon

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I am so happy to see more fairy tale retellings by authors of color being published. I have an urge to buy them all. I am very excited to read Sandhya Menon’s Of Curses and Kisses which is based on Beauty and the Beast. I’ve enjoyed all of her previous novels and have high expectations for this one. Cover is linked to Goodreads.

Title: Of Curses and Kisses
Author: Sandhya Menon
Series: St. Rosetta’s Academy, #1
Pages: 384
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release Date: February 18, 2020

      “From the New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi comes the first novel in a brand-new series set at an elite international boarding school, that’s a contemporary spin on Beauty and the Beast.
      Will the princess save the beast?
      For Princess Jaya Rao, nothing is more important than family. When the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud to target Jaya’s little sister, nothing will keep Jaya from exacting her revenge. Then Jaya finds out she’ll be attending the same elite boarding school as Grey Emerson, and it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. She knows what she must do: Make Grey fall in love with her and break his heart. But much to Jaya’s annoyance, Grey’s brooding demeanor and lupine blue eyes have drawn her in. There’s simply no way she and her sworn enemy could find their fairy-tale ending…right?
      His Lordship Grey Emerson is a misanthrope. Thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch, Grey knows he’s doomed once he turns eighteen. Sequestered away in the mountains at St. Rosetta’s International Academy, he’s lived an isolated existence—until Jaya Rao bursts into his life, but he can’t shake the feeling that she’s hiding something. Something that might just have to do with the rose-shaped ruby pendant around her neck…
      As the stars conspire to keep them apart, Jaya and Grey grapple with questions of love, loyalty, and whether it’s possible to write your own happy ending.”

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