"Cruel Beauty" by Rosamund Hodge
Published: January 28, 2014
Publisher: Balzar + Bray
Pages: 342
Format: Hardcover
Source: MeLCat
Read January 24 to 30, 2015
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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