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A spicy genderbent Beauty and the Beast retelling reimagines the curse with a shadow mommy at its dark heart. The tone is sensual and subversive, twisting a familiar fairy tale into something fanged and forbidden. For readers who love their retellings spicy, their power dynamics flipped, and their love interests draped in menace, this opener delivers seductive shadow magic and a bond born of beauty and the beastly.
The Curse of the Wretched is a dark romantasy by S. Usher Evans. It rates 4/5 for spice and 4/5 for darkness, mid-range for dark romantasy: of the 648 dark romantasy books we rate, 34% score lower for darkness and 58% lower for spice. Tropes: slow burn, enemies to lovers and forbidden romance. 2 content warnings are listed below, hidden until you tap.
The Curse of the Wretched is rated 4/5 for spice on Readark’s scale: explicit and frequent, meaning multiple detailed scenes, with heat central to the story. Its darkness rating is 4/5: heavy, meaning sustained cruelty, trauma or non-consent central to the relationship. How we rate
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