She’s ready to embrace her destiny, hoping that all the years of training towards her goal will prove sufficient to finally destroy her family and kingdom’s enemy, The Gentle Lord. Promised in marriage to the very monster responsible for the enslaved of her people, Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny – through her eyes, we are taken to Aracadia and to a fantasy world ruled by a demon prince. Hodge has clearly gone beyond re-imagining and has made a Beauty and the Beast of her own.

I really got intrigued by what she had to say about this new “dark” version of one of my favorite fairy tales.Ī retelling of a fairy tale they say? Not so fast! Despite the clear undertones of the well known tale, Ms. I added this book to my wish list as soon as I was done reading a review at Christy’s Love For Books. ©2014 Rosamund Hodge (P)2014 HarperCollinsPublishers But even if she can bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him?īased 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. As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle – a shifting maze of magical rooms – enthralls her. Her plan? Seduce him, disarm him, and break the 900-year-old curse he put on her people.īut Ignifex is not what Nyx expected. Still, on her 17th birthday, she abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. And since birth, she has been training to kill him.īetrayed by her family yet bound to obey, Nyx rails against her fate. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom – all because of a reckless bargain her father struck.

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