Of Beast and Beauty
juli 2013 · Delacorte Press
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In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.
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4 februari 2018
This book was really good. It's another wonderful new twist to the classic Beauty & the Beast fairytale - which, if you've read my ACOTAR review, you'll already know is one of my fav fairytales - set in a new world where the concepts of "beauty" and "beastly" differ somewhat, where there's dark magic craving blood and light magic trying to bring back love. The main characters Isra and Gem are wonderful to read about and thanks to Isra's blindness you don't really know how Gem looks until somewhere midway through the book, which leaves your imagination running wild with ideas for how a "beast" might look - if he is really the one meant to be the beast. Because that's another thing; you don't really know who the beast is and who the beauty is. In this story they're sort of one and the same - we all have beauty inside of us, as well as beastly qualities. It's a matter of what we show to the world in that moment. And that, I think, is a wonderful message to send out.
Om författaren
STACEY JAY is the author of the popular Juliet Immortal and Romeo Redeemed and several other books for young adults. She lives in California with her family.
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