Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where you chose a random book from your Goodreads TBR and show it off. Budget Tales Book Blog hosts this meme. This week, I’m spotlighting a book by one of my favorite authors – Danielle L. Jensen. A Curse Carved in Bone is the second book in a duology, and I loved the first book, A Fate Inked in Blood. Let’s check this one out!
Title: A Curse Carved in Bone
Author: Danielle L. Jensen
Series: Saga of the Unfated #2
Page Length: 403
Pub. Date: May 13, 2025
Publisher: Del Rey
Synopsis: The secret of her divine heritage revealed, Freya finds herself on a path that will see thousands of lives lost to the magic in her blood. Desperate to avoid this dark fate, she risks an alliance with Skaland’s greatest enemy to seek answers from the seer who foretold her future—the same seer who sent Bjorn to kill her.
While Freya still seethes with rage over Bjorn’s betrayal, the blood oaths that bind her demand that she keep him close as she hunts for a way to avert the looming war. Her magic draws her to the front lines of an old enmity, embroiling her with Nordeland’s Unfated—children of the gods who serve the king she was raised to fear. The same king who, unlike Bjorn, is now willing to fight at her back. For despite the desire that burns hot between Bjorn and Freya, his growing distrust of her chosen path threatens to drag them further apart.
As war approaches, gods and mortals must choose their weapons. Yet the fiercest battle will be the one Freya wages within herself. With the magic of two goddesses burning in her veins, she must weave the threads of destiny to decide her own fate: Will she be the shield that protects her people or the curse that destroys them?
Have you read this one? What else is on your TBR? Comment below!
First of all, this duology has such gorgeous cover art – love, love, LOVE them! Now, book one was kind of middle of the road for me, but I’m invested enough to want to read book two (don’t know when that’ll be) because I really want to know how things end.
The first wasn’t my favorite by the author, but I feel the same as you. I definitely want to finish the duology.