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Goddess in the Stacks (553 KP) rated Cruel Beauty in Books

Apr 26, 2018  
Cruel Beauty
Cruel Beauty
Rosamund Hodge | 2014 | Young Adult (YA)
9
8.5 (8 Ratings)
Book Rating
After reading Bright Smoke, Cold Fire I knew I HAD to find more Rosamund Hodge. She has a fantastic flair for taking fairy tales (or Shakespeare!) and twisting them into something darker but more realistic. Cruel Beauty is a twist on Beauty and the Beast, but this is no Stockholm Syndrome-suffering Beauty. She is resentful, and bitter, and angry at her father for subjecting her to this. She has trained her entire life to go to the Beast and destroy him, even if it means destroying herself too. What she find at the castle is nothing like what she expected, though, and neither is she what Hodge's Beast expects. Watching these two bitter, mocking characters dance around each other to get to the bottom of the curse and what actually happened to their world is engrossing and beautiful.

I couldn't put this book down once I started it, and I've already started Crimson Bound (Little Red Riding Hood), the next book in the same world. There's also a novella, Gilded Ashes (Cinderella), that I should snag a copy of.

The world is lovely and evocative, with gods and Forest Lords and Demons who actively participate in the world and grant wishes and make deals. It's a little bit Rumpelstiltskin, a little Fairy Godmother, a little Greek mythology, and all Rosamund Hodge. She's got talent, and writes my favorite micro-genre SO WELL.

If you like dark fairy tales, read this and then everything else Rosamund Hodge has written. It's excellent!

You can find all my reviews at http://goddessinthestacks.wordpress.com
  
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Carly Rae Jepsen recommended track Eternal Flame by Bangles in Manic Monday by Bangles in Music (curated)

 
Manic Monday by Bangles
Manic Monday by Bangles
2002 | Rock
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Eternal Flame by Bangles

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"It was the first song that I ever sang at a live talent show when I was seven years old. There were 400 people in the audience. It was in Mission, B.C., where I was born and raised, and my dad actually accompanied me on the acoustic guitar. We played the Bangles and 'Beauty and the Beast,' and I won that competition. It was like my first time out on stage, and my first thrill of winning a little trophy."

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Christiane Amanpour recommended Black Beauty in Books (curated)

 
Black Beauty
Black Beauty
Anna Sewell | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
7.8 (22 Ratings)
Book Favorite

"This was the first real classic I remember reading. It occupied my heart from page one. It’s still with me. The whole panorama of life (yes our human experience too!) can be told through the experience of this magnificent noble beast. Riding was my first sport, horses were my first love. Black Beauty and Ginger were then my favorite fictional characters."

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Jess (16 KP) rated A Court of Thorns and Roses in Books

May 23, 2017  
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Sarah J. Maas | 2015 | Young Adult (YA)
10
8.7 (108 Ratings)
Book Rating
Feyre is no shrinking violet (3 more)
Tamlin
Good plot progression
Fast pacing
Over far too soon! (0 more)
Beauty & The Beast - But Not As You Know It
Honestly, the cover put me off reading this book for SO long that the third book was almost out by the time I picked it up. And for that, I'm grateful, because I was able to go straight from this into the second!