When Darius’ grandfather becomes terminally ill, Darius, along with his parents and younger sister, travels to Iran for the first time in his life. Love blooms slowly, but this is an old-fashioned romance reminiscent of Robin McKinley’s and Patricia McKillip’s novels, concerned with the power of stories.Īn elegant, classic, and vivid fairy tale.ĭarius Kellner suffers from depression, bullying by high school jocks, and a father who seems to always be disappointed in him. No Disney heroine, white, red-haired Yeva is also-appreciably-not an instantly lethal, superpowered heroine, although she is single-mindedly bent first on survival, then on revenge.
Building upon a familiar tale, Spooner creates a detailed world populated by complex characters, with medieval household mundanities and retellings of Russian folk tales anchoring the later fantastic elements.
Blaming the Beast for her father’s absence, Yeva becomes his captive, then his would-be assassin-trained to kill for him but also hoping to kill him-yet struggles to reconcile his violence and humanity. Preferring solitude to her persistent suitor, Solmir, and a brewing love triangle-Asenka is drawn to Solmir-Yeva hunts, first for game, then for the Beast. But when her merchant father loses their fortune and retreats to the wilderness with Yeva and her older sisters, Lena (Light) and Asenka (Grace), Yeva must remember her woodcraft in order to protect her family. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation.A rich, Russian-influenced retelling of “Beauty and the Beast.”īored by her comfortable life in town, Yeva (Beauty) longs for the woods. The Beast.ĭeaf to her sisters' protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory-a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva's only heard about in fairy tales. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas.or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman.īut Yeva's father's misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he'd been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. After all, her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering its secrets. New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget.īeauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones-and in her blood.
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