Cruel Beauty is be described as young adult fantasy where Greek mythology meets Beauty and the Beast.
THE BLURB:
Based on the classic
fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story
about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.
Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.
With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.
But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.
As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.
Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.
With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for wanting to escape her fate. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.
But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.
As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Even if she could bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: the future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love.
MY THOUGHTS:
This was a super fun read!
I had my doubts at first, when I picked up on a couple of silly little things that irked me (repetition of words and phrases too many times, some phrasing that just didn't sit right with me, a couple of overdone ideas), but really those seemed limited to the beginning. I didn't notice things like that later on, and the author turned out some beautifully written sentences with delicious imagery.
The story itself was great fun. It hooked me and I finished it in 2 days, staying up until 3am to finish it and probably ignoring my children a bit more than I should have (sorry boys!) The author ended up hitting me right where she wanted to. I will definitely want to check out more of her work as it comes out.
I had my doubts at first, when I picked up on a couple of silly little things that irked me (repetition of words and phrases too many times, some phrasing that just didn't sit right with me, a couple of overdone ideas), but really those seemed limited to the beginning. I didn't notice things like that later on, and the author turned out some beautifully written sentences with delicious imagery.
The story itself was great fun. It hooked me and I finished it in 2 days, staying up until 3am to finish it and probably ignoring my children a bit more than I should have (sorry boys!) The author ended up hitting me right where she wanted to. I will definitely want to check out more of her work as it comes out.
MY RATING:
4.5 booksies!
Find it on Amazon
Find it through Barnes & Noble
No comments:
Post a Comment