Honeytrap aster glenn gray6/29/2023 ![]() Others might have quibbled that Rose was not the most beautiful girl in the world, or even the prettiest girl in the village of Lesser Innsley. There once was a country parson with a game leg from the Somme, who lived in a honey-colored parsonage with his daughter, the most beautiful girl in the world. This version of the story is set in the English countryside during World War II, and the exquisite writing and the author’s gift for language and tone sucked me in from the very first page: But then I remembered Aster Glenn Gray’s Briarley – an m/m version of Beauty and the Beast – that I’d come across at the end of last year after enjoying Honeytrap. I’m not a big fan of fairytale retellings, so I struggled a to come up with something for this month’s Challenge prompt and was almost at the point of just picking up a random book instead. ![]() ![]() What can break this vengeful curse? Grade: B+ ![]() But slowly, he begins to feel the injustice of the curse that holds the dragon captive. Literally.Īt first, the parson can’t stand this dragon-man. Unnerved by the uncanny house, he flees, but stops to pluck a single perfect rose from the garden for his daughter – only for the master of the house to appear, breathing fire with rage. ![]() The house seems deserted, yet the table is laid with a sumptuous banquet such as the parson has not seen since before war rationing. During a chance summer shower, an English country parson takes refuge in a country house. ![]()
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