Review : Cruel Beauty

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Fairy Tales, Retelling, Mythology, Magic, Paranormal, Demons
Pages: 342
Purchase Link : Amazon

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.

Review:

This book was quite unexpected. I absolutely love retelling. This was a interesting and unique take on Beauty and the Beast. Not at all how I thought it would turn out which made it more fun and entertaining. I loved that there was so much going on, I loved getting to know their own little tales. There is so much twists and turns that'll keep the readers on their toes. I look forward to checking out the next book I hear that its a Little Red Riding Hood retelling.