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Cursebreakers reading order

Brigid Kemmerer

  1. A Curse So Dark and Lonely2019
  2. A Heart So Fierce and Broken2020
  3. A Vow So Bold and Deadly2021
7.77.7 / 10
126 ratings
Score
3 volumes
Volumes
2019–2021
Published
about 24 h
Reading time
Completed
Status

Quick answer

A Curse So Dark and Lonely
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Publication order

3 volumes2019–2021Completed

  • Brigid Kemmerer’s young adult retelling of Beauty and the Beast: Harper, a girl with cerebral palsy from Washington, D.C., is pulled into the kingdom of Emberfall, where Prince Rhen relives the same autumn over and over and turns into a monster at the end of each one.
  • Harper refuses to play the helpless beauty.
  • The second book shifts to the guard commander Grey and is the one with enough ratings.
  • Read the trilogy in order.

A plan for the whole series

3 volumes, 1,282 pages, about 24 hours. At 45 min a day that is about 4 weeks.

Stages

2 stages, with 1 short book from outside the series between them. You finish around December 3, 2026, 4 days later than in one go.

  1. Stage 116 habout 3 weeksby November 19, 2026
  2. Short breakThe Fire Next Time · James Baldwin · 120 pp. · score 8.82 h, by November 23, 2026. A short book from another shelf, so you come back to the series hungry.
  3. Stage 28 h10 daysby December 3, 2026
    • 3. A Vow So Bold and Deadly2021 · 416 pages · 8 h
  4. The end of the series
    December 3, 2026
In one goNovember 29, 2026about 4 weeks
In stages, with breaksDecember 3, 2026about 5 weeks · +2 h of other books

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How this plan is calculated

The plan comes from the pages and ratings of each volume: we split the series into stages of about three weeks’ reading, size each break to the stage before it, and read the chance of finishing from how many readers rate the last volume compared with the first. How we work out the plan →

Every volume in order

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  1. A Curse So Dark and Lonely
    A Curse So Dark and Lonely2019 · Not ranked yetStart hereBuy
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  2. A Heart So Fierce and Broken
    A Heart So Fierce and Broken2020 · 126 ratings
    7.77.7 / 10
  3. A Vow So Bold and Deadly
    A Vow So Bold and Deadly2021 · Not ranked yetBuy
    –Not ranked yet

Order checked by hand · Order and years: Wikidata (CC0). Spotted an error? Tell us. · Data updated October 29, 2026

Frequently asked questions

Which Cursebreakers book is the longest?

“A Curse So Dark and Lonely” is the longest at 496 pages; the shortest is “A Heart So Fierce and Broken” with 370 pages.