Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
by Rosamund Hodge
Book description from Goodreads:
Graceling meets Beauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl's journey to fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealing her heart.
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.
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My review:
***3 STARS***
I wanted to shout to the whole world and say yes, this book was awesome!
But that would make me a liar.
I had high hopes for this book. Have you seen the book cover? It's gorgeous!!! I wanted to devour it immediately! And I read the blurb and was instantly sold. I snapped my fingers and said yes, this is the book that I've been dreaming to read. Beauty and the Beast meets Graceling . . . heck yeah!
The storyline was okay. Well, I felt kinda meh about it. I liked Ignifex and Nyx was a badass heroine. They both earned brownie points. Other than that . . . the plot was too vague for me. Shady. I couldn't feel any excitement or attempting to lick the pages. I don't know if that's because of the writing or just the storyline.
I wanted to love it. But it's just not hitting the stars yet. So much potential...
Dang shame.
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