(This is actually my favorite thing about writing in general, by the way.
And as I sat pondering what she might encounter, the word dragons leapt from my fingers to the keyboard to the computer screen without so much as a by your leave. That is already a whole bucket of fantasy elements!īut as I was meandering down the path of a subplot, I found myself in need of an obstacle for my heroine Lena to face. Besides, Briar Girls is a moody, dark fairy tale reimagining set in a deadly, possibly sentient forest. I had already written a duology all about dragons ( Shatter the Sky is sometimes known around the internet as the angry bisexual dragon book), so I thought I was covered. I didn’t expect to include dragons in this story. They are my favorite secondary characters I’ve ever written, and it’s not even a close contest.
My favorite bit of Briar Girls is the dragons. As the shadows close in, Lena must choose who to trust and decide whether it’s more important to have freedom…or power. But the deeper into the Silence she goes, the more she suspects she’s been lied to-about her family’s history, her curse, and her future. Mesmerized by Miranda and her promise of a new life, Lena jumps at the chance. If Lena assists her on her journey, Miranda will help her break the curse. She is on a quest to wake a sleeping princess believed to hold the key to liberating the Gather from its tyrannical ruler-and she offers Lena a bargain. Miranda comes from the Gather, a city in the forest brimming with magic. Until the night an enigmatic girl stumbles out of the Silence and into Lena’s sheltered world. But after a devastating mistake, she and her father are forced to flee to a village near the Silence, a mysterious forest with a reputation for luring people into the trees, never to be seen again… Cursed by a witch before she was born, Lena has always lived in fear and isolation. Lena has a secret: the touch of her skin can kill. The Cruel Prince meets A Curse So Dark and Lonely in this epic reimagining of “The Sleeping Beauty” that follows a teen girl on a quest to wake a sleeping princess in an enchanted forest, while searching for the truth behind her own deadly curse.
Rebecca Kim Wells is joining us today to talk about her novel, Briar Girls.
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