The Cursed-2: Camellia

“I know too well what it feels like when you have everything—an intact, healthy, young body. But inside me, nothing is there. My soul was long ago rotten and destroyed in the prison for especially dangerous criminals—in Adinburgh. It’s the place where they kill your humanity drop by drop, and in six years of torture, the servants of hell managed to do exactly this to me. The day I felt fear for a girl who didn’t deserve it became my hope—for the belief that I might feel something, anything at all. But my flower, which pretended to be that hope, turned out to be poison, a poison—and another curse that I must root out of myself once and for all.

I don’t want to be human anymore. This time, my game will be even crueler, because I’m going to tear the camellia to pieces until she starts begging me… for death.” — Brendan.

From the author: If you love sweet fairy tales about love, this is not for you. In this book everything is on the edge. All or nothing. Like the boundary between hate and love, pride and passion… And every time the heroes have to make choices, constantly confronting each other—but their relationship, despite all that, is exactly what it is—alive and real. Because love isn’t “for”—it’s “in spite of”…