What she didn’t expect was that the demon she had to kill was the same person who would learn to love her and every wicked bit of her. She was suppose to kill him and free their land. When she had been old enough as a child, she learns that she had a duty to kill him and free their land, Arcadia, and so she trained until she was wed. Once she is seventeen she needs to marry him and live with him in his castle. Nyx was betrothed to the Gentle Lord because of a bargain her father had with him. It breaks out from the usual re-telling making it a unique take on the popular fairytale classic. 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.Ĭruel Beauty is a dark, epic re-telling of Beauty and the Beast mixed with Greek Mythology. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.Īs Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.īut Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. 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. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him. Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. 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.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.

ARC Review: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

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