I also connected with Nimue and all her fears and uncertainties, which is an improvement on many books I’ve read recently. While it is Nimue’s story, we see from Merlin, Uther, and even Sparrow’s perspective. Thomas has done exactly that with Cursed. I know I said I preferred The Last Wish (The Witcher)’s adaptation because it was a multi-point of view telling. Several characters have different, but similar, roles than I knew from other stories. My background knowledge is sparse, so I also don’t know if my OMG moments were really OMG moments or just shocks for me. I’m stopping there because there are some major spoilers that could come. A chance meeting earlier in the day teams her with Arthur and then Morgan and several others we know from the other tellings. This sets Nimue forth on a mission and also to save the Fey folk from the Red Paladins. Until then, Merlin was just a character in storybooks to Nimue. Her mother’s dying request was that Nimue return a mysterious magical sword to Merlin. She was all ready to leave the village when the entire village, including her mother, are killed by Red Paladins. She’s an outcast in her druid village from being a Fey, but with connections to dark magic. Like Arthur, Nimue is a teen in this story and yet to know what she will become (but comes close at the end). But it’s not relevant because Arthur isn’t the star of this story. Uther is currently king and there are questions of his lineage, which could open the path for Arthur to be king. Well, it is a King Arthur re-telling, but Arthur is just a teen sellsword (sword for hire) trying to make his way. I saw people on Goodreads complaining about the spate of retellings, but this was another thing I missed, so Cursed was new to me.īack to what Cursed is about. Cursed a retelling of the King Arthur story. What’s Cursed about? As well as being another adaptation read, it’s another I threw on my Goodreads to read list and don’t recall why. By the way, Frank Miller added the artwork in the novel. Afterwards I discovered Thomas is a screenwriter and wrote the screenplay and the novel concurrently. While reading Cursed, I visualised how it would look and I felt Nimue’s emotions. This time I’m begging to watch the Netflix series of Cursed by Thomas Wheeler. I’ve done it another accidental adaptation read.
Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on October 1, 2019
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