![]() ![]() But there are some essential differences: for one thing, the setting, traditionally rural France, has morphed to Arcadia, an alternate version of Ancient Greece. The heroine, Nyx, must leave her family to marry a dangerous and despicable creature, but soon finds herself questioning whether her husband is quite as evil as he appears. ![]() ![]() The basic premise of the book is that it’s a retelling of the fairytale, Beauty and the Beast, and the broad details are more or less the same. And was I ever pleasantly surprised! Around a third of the way through the book, I suddenly realised that the writing was good, the plot was (relatively) unpredictable and that I actually cared about the characters. It was being marketed as YA fantasy, a genre more known for its two-dimensional heroines and clichéd writing than anything else, but some people who tend to share my taste in books had reviewed it very positively, and my brain needed some easy reading to give it a rest, so I decided I’d try it. I picked up Cruel Beauty as light reading for my breaks at work, not expecting very much from it. ![]()
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