Title: Cruel Beauty
Author: Rosamund Hodge
Rating: 3.5/5
Book: 19/50
Pages: 342 pgs
Total Pages: 6,727/15,000 pages
Version: Book
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While I enjoyed this book, it is missing something for me. I had fun reading it and I am intrigued enough to read the next installment but I felt like this book was trying a little too hard. Also, the ending was wrapped up too neatly and too quickly for my liking. It was as though everything was in pieces and the next page, everything was wrapped up with a nice bow.
Perhaps it’s because it’s a fairy tale retelling and after reading The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer, nothing can reach the threshold that series has set for other fairy tale retellings but it’s still a solid read.
About the Book:
Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom-all because of a foolish bargain struck by her father. And since birth, she has been in training to kill him.
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. Still, on her seventeenth birthday, Nyx abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex. Her plan? Seduce him, destroy his enchanted castle, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.
But Ignifex is not at all what Nyx expected. The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her.
As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself unwillingly drawn to him. 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.
The World According to Me, Myself and I! 