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Three Words Cursed
Eighteen-year-old Haven doesn’t remember life before the Surge.
Before electricity was zapped to near non-existence.
Before families sold their children and big cities became ghost towns.
Before she met her best friend Cricket, the 6’10” boy she rescued from a freak show.
After spending a year as the McCall circus’s star dancer, Haven is blindsided when her employer sells her to a brothel. Refusing to be sold into prostitution, she hatches an escape plan, but after her final show, she and Cricket are interrupted mid-escape by an intoxicated assassin named Breck. He is everything Haven fears about the outside world - dangerous, cold, and yet incredibly charming.
But Breck’s arrival ends with a trail of blood and their faces plastered on WANTED posters. Haven agrees to leave under his protection on one condition - Cricket goes too - and because Breck can’t fight his burning infatuation with Haven, he agrees.
Hopping trains and hiding out in a misfit circus wasn’t the life she’d envisioned, but as Breck’s hard exterior softens and Cricket’s smile is no longer painted, Haven finally realizes how badly she wants to be free and in control of her own life.
With the brothel and McCall’s investors closing in on them, Haven must fight for what she wants - but the price for freedom is greater than she ever imagined.
Before electricity was zapped to near non-existence.
Before families sold their children and big cities became ghost towns.
Before she met her best friend Cricket, the 6’10” boy she rescued from a freak show.
After spending a year as the McCall circus’s star dancer, Haven is blindsided when her employer sells her to a brothel. Refusing to be sold into prostitution, she hatches an escape plan, but after her final show, she and Cricket are interrupted mid-escape by an intoxicated assassin named Breck. He is everything Haven fears about the outside world - dangerous, cold, and yet incredibly charming.
But Breck’s arrival ends with a trail of blood and their faces plastered on WANTED posters. Haven agrees to leave under his protection on one condition - Cricket goes too - and because Breck can’t fight his burning infatuation with Haven, he agrees.
Hopping trains and hiding out in a misfit circus wasn’t the life she’d envisioned, but as Breck’s hard exterior softens and Cricket’s smile is no longer painted, Haven finally realizes how badly she wants to be free and in control of her own life.
With the brothel and McCall’s investors closing in on them, Haven must fight for what she wants - but the price for freedom is greater than she ever imagined.
- GenresYoung Adult
273 pages, Paperback
First published November 24, 2019
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February 23, 2021
“Are you up for a grand adventure?”
“With you? Always, always always”
THIS. BOOK. I’d been waiting for this book for at least a year and a half now and as an avid Nikki Godwin reader, I was SO excited to see that Three Words Cursed finally got the debut it deserved. This book is kind of a dystopian book, following a something called “the Surge” (which btw sounds EERILY realistic and terrifying) which basically got rid of electricity.
We follow Haven and Cricket’s journey to freedom, where they find more members to join their family along their way. You will adore Haven & Cricket’s bond, and you’ll love Breck’s personality (even if he can be a bit over the top). You’ll grow to love the vampiric Stoker and Gordon and Jamari and Venus.
Haven just wants to be free. This book was a journey and yes, I did cry at two specific points but I have to say thag the epilogue made up for the sad tears with happy tears - although I do wish we had a bonus scene at the end
“With you? Always, always always”
THIS. BOOK. I’d been waiting for this book for at least a year and a half now and as an avid Nikki Godwin reader, I was SO excited to see that Three Words Cursed finally got the debut it deserved. This book is kind of a dystopian book, following a something called “the Surge” (which btw sounds EERILY realistic and terrifying) which basically got rid of electricity.
We follow Haven and Cricket’s journey to freedom, where they find more members to join their family along their way. You will adore Haven & Cricket’s bond, and you’ll love Breck’s personality (even if he can be a bit over the top). You’ll grow to love the vampiric Stoker and Gordon and Jamari and Venus.
Haven just wants to be free. This book was a journey and yes, I did cry at two specific points but I have to say thag the epilogue made up for the sad tears with happy tears - although I do wish we had a bonus scene at the end
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