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5 Details You Might Have Missed From The Curse of Broken Shadows

Laura Winter
4 min readFeb 11, 2022

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I’ve been having a lot of fun lately writing the prequel to The Curse of Broken Shadows. It has me reminiscing on the creation of this series and how much fun it was to build this intricate world (which you can read about on the series page). Since it has been a few months since the release of TCOBS, I thought I’d drop in for anyone who has read or has TCOBS on their TBR list with some details you might have missed (or, things to look forward to).

The female MC and male MC have reverse roles

All the fantasy books I’ve read lately have the mysterious male lead who is tall/dark/handsome and seems to know all the answers while the female lead is the inexperienced yet increasingly capable fighter who has their life changed by the male lead.

Let me make it clear: there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that! I love those books.

But I wanted to write something different. I didn’t want another brooding book boyfriend… I wanted a book girlfriend. I wanted to have the snarky, put-together female who is five steps ahead of everyone and ends up changing the life of the male.

Now, Cason isn’t inexperienced or incapable when we first meet him, but his view on life is drastically altered by meeting Brela. And that’s not…

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Laura Winter
Laura Winter

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