it's such a Gillian book, full of lush imagery, inventive world-building, fairy tale roots, a prickly heroine with lots of hate in her hate, and a love interest about as far from Prince Charming as you can get. I am an opinionated person, and I tend to react strongly to things one way or the other. This book constitutes one of those rare instances where I literally have no idea what I feel. The future of her kingdom, or the man she was never supposed to love. Kill him? With time running out, Nyx must decide what is more important: Even if she couldīring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to Secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex's Her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her. The nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break Still, on her seventeenth birthday, NyxĪbandons everything she's ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Resents her family for never trying to save her and hates herself for With no choice but to fulfill her duty, Nyx Has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of aįoolish bargain struck by her father. The Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepestĭesires and their power to change our destiny. To fulfill her destiny and the monster who gets in her way-by stealingīased on the classic fairy tale Beauty and Rating: Greek myths + Beauty and the Beast + lush prose + tons of worldbuilding = one confused/beguiled/mostly confused reviewer.īeauty and the Beast in this sweeping fantasy about one girl's journey
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