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Cruel Beauty

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The romance of Beauty and the Beast meets the adventure of Graceling in a dazzling fantasy novel about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.
For fans of bestselling An Ember in the Ashes and A Court of Thorns and Roses, this gorgeously written debut infuses the classic fairy tale with glittering magic, a feisty heroine, and a romance sure to take your breath away.
Betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom, Nyx has always known that her fate was to marry him, kill him, and free her people from his tyranny. But on her seventeenth birthday when she moves into his castle high on the kingdom's mountaintop, nothing is what she expected—particularly her charming and beguiling new husband. Nyx knows she must save her homeland at all costs, yet she can't resist the pull of her sworn enemy—who's gotten in her way by stealing her heart.
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309 printed pages
Publication year
2014
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  • Maja Mønstedshared an impression6 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    🔮Hidden Depths
    🎯Worthwhile
    🚀Unputdownable

    So good, is there a part 2? 🤗❤️😏

  • Marina Zalashared an impression7 years ago
    👍Worth reading
    💡Learnt A Lot
    🎯Worthwhile

    One of different beauty and the beast retelling 😁😁

  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈshared an impression8 months ago
    👍Worth reading
    💞Loved Up
    😄LOLZ

Quotes

  • Дафна Вандерhas quoted5 years ago
    Then I thought, I do not have time for such things.
  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈhas quoted8 months ago
    “I’m helping you,” I said, my voice low and clear. I couldn’t meet his eyes, so I stared at the ring glinting on my finger. “I chose you and Arcadia, so I will betray Ignifex. I will destroy him so that you can take back everything he stole. But I love him, not you, and I’m his wife, not yours.”
  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈhas quoted8 months ago
    Astraia’s smile vanished. “You like it.” Her voice was low and shaky. “All these years you were miserable. All these years I tried and tried to comfort you but nothing ever worked until at last I thought you were broken. I felt so useless that I couldn’t heal you. But really, all you ever needed was to kiss our mother’s murderer and become a demon’s whore—”

    "WHAT DO WE THINK OF ASTRAIAA?!?"🗣️🗣️⁉️
    "SHITT!!!!"✊
    "WHAT DO WE THINK OF SHIIT??!"🗣️🗣️⁉️
    "ASTRAIAAAA!!!!"🖕🖕🔥
    "THANK YOU!!"🗣️🗣️💯
    "THAT'S ALRIGHT!"😀‼️
    👏"WE HATE ASTRAIAA!"👏
    👏"WE HATE ASTRAIA!"👏
    👏"WE HATE ASTRAIAA!"👏
    👏"WE HATE ASTRAIA!"👏

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