Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe #1) -

Rosamund Hodge

Balzer + Bray

2014

352 páginas

11h 44m

ISBN-13: 9780062224736

Based on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast, Cruel Beauty is a dazzling love story about our deepest desires and their power to change our destiny.

Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdomall 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 castlea shifting maze of magical roomsenthralls 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.

Resenhas (10)

2 (Razoável)

Infelizmente esse não era para mim. Não me conectei com nenhum personagem, inclusive achei eles péssimos, todos. Eu entendi a tentativa de fazer uma anti-heroína como protagonista, mas a execução não foi boa. A Nyx é insuportavelmente chata.
O romance acontece do nada e por isso não me deu aquele arrepio gostoso. De uma hora pra outra ela já estava apaixonada e eu nem isso acontecendo.
A mitologia é muito confusa e não foi interessante o suficiente para ser a redenção do livro.
A escrita é confusa também e por vezes eu nem sabia do a autora estava falando.
Eu dificilmente sou tão dura com algum livro, mas esse foi difícil do começo ao fim.