Cruel Beauty

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Too bad really, I don't come across many good adult romances, and setup of "Cruel Beauty" is perfect for creating all kinds of convenient excuses to facilitate sexy times. For fans of bestselling authors Kristin Cashore and Alex Flinn, this gorgeously written debut infuses the classic fairy tale with glittering magic, a feisty heroine, and a romance sure to take your breath away.

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Despite knowing Ignifex is evil, she finds that she is unable to ignore someone when they are in pain. When I first started the book I was disappointed and thought I would not like it because it seemed to drag for me. Nyx is what I wanted Rose Hathaway from Vampire Academy to be - BA and mean, with an iron will, but so broken that you couldn't help but love her. If you don't like the narrator, screw the rest of the book; I really liked this book's main character, Nyx. In second grade, Autumn wrote her first story, “The Spinach Monster,” and hasn't stopped writing since.

Big Bad: Ignifex is set up as one, since he is a prince of the demons and the tyrannical ruler of Arcadia. Would you root more for a heroine who's all good, all the time, or one who struggles to do what's right? In “Cupid and Psyche,” this wasn’t the case, Psyche married off to a monstrous man (by her own family) before they meet. First, do not get turned off by the title, or by the tag line; Cruel Beauty is not only for the romance-reading crowd.

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Nyx Triskelion is the main protagonist of the Cruel Beauty, daughter of Leonidas and Thisbe Triskelions, twin sister of Astraia and the wife of Prince Marcus Valerius Lux. Without spoilers, it's hard to be specific, but when that portion of the story started I almost stopped reading because of how much I hate stories that end the way it was seeming to go. Hodge tried to model Nyx after morally grey heroines such as Adelina Amouteru, but I could see nothing that made me want to root for her. I can go on for days about the plot, setting, grammatical structure blah blah blah, but let's be honest, what makes or breaks a book is its narrator.Either way, I enjoyed his development a lot too, and although I figured out early on the big twist about his identity, just like with Cinder by Marissa Meyer, I didn't care. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes.

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At first I didn't understand a thing about the "Hermetic" laws and the elemental hearts, then it became clearer, but we also had demons, gods, "kindly ones", shadows, mithology, fantasy, and so much more that I don't think I fully understood the world at the end of the book, but that doesn't mean I didn't like it, on the contrary, I found it very interesting! The most difficult feat was to bear with the protagonist, but the setting is so enticing that Nyx won't bother you too much.Mention of the Roman story of Lucretia who is raped, kills her rapist, and then kills herself out of shame. I'm still roiling a bit on what just happened there at the end because it also starts to pull in time travle? The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls her. While it did have its faults, I enjoyed what it was trying to do and the general theme, even if the execution failed at times.