Hunted
Beauty knows the Beast s forest in her bones and in her blood Though she grew up with the city s highest aristocrats, far from her father s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who s ever come close to discovering them So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved Out in the wilderness, there s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman But 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 Deaf to her sisters protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva s only heard about in fairy tales A world that can bring her ruin or salvation Who will survive the Beauty, or the Beast Free Read Hunted author Meagan Spooner For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr She wept because she did not know what she wanted, and because she wanted everything4 1 2 stars Wow, this was unexpected I got an arc of Hunted from edelweiss months ago After putting it off again and again for other books, I decided to let it expire Seriously, who even needs another Beauty the Beast retelling Then this book was given to me as a gift and resigned sigh I decided to just give it a shot And I m so glad I did.Cruel Beauty is still my favou... Inches from her face was a nightmarish visage, snarling fangs and red gold eyes She screamed, every muscle going rigid as she tried to struggle free, but claws dug into her skin on all sides, giving her no room to move She stretched out with one arm anyway, ignoring the tearing pain of it, fingers brushing the hilt of her fletching knife YOU GAVE US YOUR WORD The voice was almost unrecognizable, the roar tangible against her face as the teeth flashed in the firelight The claws tightened, Inches from her face was a nightmarish visage, snarling fangs and red gold eyes She screamed, every muscle going rigid as she tried to struggle free, but claws dug into her skin on all sides, giving her no room to move She stretched out with one arm anyway, ignoring the tearing pain of it, fingers brushing the hilt of her fletching knife YOU GAVE US YOUR WORD The voice was almost unrecognizable, the roar tangible against her face as the teeth flashed in the firelight The claws tightened, piercing her skin all over and causing her to cry out in pain and terror. Ugh So I m a sucker for Beauty and the Beast retellings and Russian y stuff and bad ass chicks, and so I when I read the blurb, a BB retelling set in a vaguely Russian sounding place with Belle as a hunter out to get Beast, fuck yeah, give it to me baby.Luckily, I was not disappointed This book was awesome It had everything I wanted The traditional elements of th...4.5 I really really enjoyed this I normally like my fantasy books to have a lot of action and this one definitely lacked that but it worked really well because it read exactly like a fairy tale, which is perfect as this is a Beauty and the Beast retelling This one stuck a bit closer to the Disney version original fairy tale than others I have read while also taking a unique spin on it which I thought was very n... Tale as old as time Except.Yeah, this is not that Beauty and the Beast.This Beauty is a bit less sing y and a bitstabby Which is a pretty nice change of pace, to be honest Plus, this time around, it isn t the villagers who are out to kill the Beast, it s Beauty, herself She s a hunter A badass hunter And becauseinsert spoilery reasons hereshe s on a mission to take a chunk out of his supernatural hide Of course, killing him means she s gotta stay on as his Guest prisoner Tale as old as time Except.Yeah, this is not that Beauty and the Beast.This Beauty is a bit less sing y and a bitstabby Which is a pretty nice change of pace, to be honest Plus, this time around, it isn t the villagers who are out to kill the Beast, it s Beauty, herself She s a hunter A badass hunter And becauseinsert spoilery reasons hereshe s on a mission to take a chunk out of his supernatural hide Of course, killing him means she s gotta stay on as his Guest prisoner while she looks for the chink in his armor that will allow her to take her revenge Then, after a cute montage, they fall in love, rightUhhhhhh No.The romance is so slow to build that even the characters are clueless until the very end And even then what brings them together isof a mutual understanding of each other A recognition of someone with the same wants and needs with the same sort of big gaping hole in their soul.You know, kinda like real life So what happens when the last petal fallsOh Well, there ...Umm pretty sure Beauty the Beast Russian folk tales mostly Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf is the most genius mix I never knew I needed Beauty is a childhood nickname for Yeva, a girl who grew up hunting with her father and wants a husband who admires her talent as an equal She s a wonderfully complex, flawed, and capable main character and I really enjoyed reading from her POV She s torn between duty caring for her family and seeking the life she wants The Umm pretty sure Beauty the Beast Russian folk tales mostly Tsarevitch Ivan, the Firebird and the Gray Wolf is the most genius mix I never knew I needed Beauty is a childhood nickname for Yeva, a girl who grew up hunting with her father and wants a husband who admires her talent as an equal She s a wonderfully complex, flawed, and capable main character and I really enjoyed reading from her POV She s torn between duty caring for her family and seeking the life she wants The retelling follows the traditional Beauty the Beast with how Beauty is her father s favorite of his 3 daughters He s a trader who loses his fortune, so they all move into his remote hunting cabin in the forest Beauty grew up hearing his stories of the Firebird and other fairy tales, but didn t think they were real One day the father goes missing, so Beauty goes to find him and is taken prisoner by the beast who killed him The story s told from Beauty s POV but has a page from the Beast every few chapters ... Another anticipated release Another unpopular opinion Beware the spoilers Lo and behold, Fifty Shades of Beast Note My reference of 50 shades of Beast is not about this book having an explicit content There s no sex, it s a YA story in its usual they kissed and the screen went blank My reference is about how disturbing and unrealistic I find what characters have between them, and there s nothing romantic I can see about it A very strong case of Stockholm Syndrome worse than in the origAnother anticipated release Another unpopular opinion Beware the spoilers Lo and behold, Fifty Shades of Beast Note My reference of 50 shades of Beast is not about this book having an explicit content There s no sex, it s a YA story in its usual they kissed and the screen went blank My reference is about how disturbing and unrealistic I find what characters have between them, and there s nothing romantic I can see about it A very strong case of Stockholm Syndrome worse than in the original, as here the Beast kidnaps, chains Beauty in the dungeon and threatens to kill her relatives if she doesn t obey him Their relationsh...Full Review UpdateGuys I m so sad I didn t love it Don t get me wrong, I totally see why others did, and I m in the minority for this one.I m not going to type a summary on this one because well, it s a Beauty and the Beast retelling Some parts were close to the original, and other parts deviated quite a bit In my opinion, it was the wrong parts Here s the thing I m super biased I grew up with Beauty and the Beast and I just hold it i...REVIEW TO COME TODAY Me sighs Person are you okay Me yeah, I m just disappointed Me facepalm And as Yeva scanned the walls, each one lined with shelves and each one full of leather bound books, at least a hundred books,than sheknew existed in one place, she felt her heart might simply burstI truly don t know why I didn t really like this book Maybe it s because I was in reading slump while reading it or maybe it was just the book that wasn t really interesting the REVIEW TO COME TODAY Me sighs Person are you okay Me yeah, I m just disappointed ...A wolf and a man A woman and a dragon Hunter and hunted Nothing in this world has only one nature This is a slightly obscure, yet wonderfully so, retelling of Beauty and the Beast, my preferred fairytale of all existing ones.Yeva is a huntress She loves it She loves the feel of finding prey and hunting it She is her father s daughter But her sisters do not understand her love of hunting, and when it s time to choose a husband, who will accept her as she is Who will share her unconvA wolf and a man A woman and a dragon Hunter and hunted Nothing in this world has only one nature This is a slightly obscure, yet wonderfully so, retelling of Beauty and the Beast, my preferred fairytale of all existing ones.Yeva is a huntress She loves it She loves the feel of finding prey and hunting it She is her father s daughter But her sisters do not understand her love of hunting, and when it s time to choose a husband, who will accept her as she is Who will share her unconventional hobby Given her undaunted nature, it s no surprise she is the first one to propose to go after her ...She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest and she tells us stories, such stories that we wake in the night, dreaming dreams of a life long past she reminds us of what we used to be.She reminds us of what we could be dark addictive uniquethis is hands down my favorite beauty and the beast retelling so far It manages to stick to the original story while having an extremely unique and beautiful twist to it by adding in Russian fairy tale and folklore into the main plot.JustShe moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest and she tells us stories, such stories that we wake in the night, dreaming dreams of a life long past she reminds us of what we used to be.She reminds us of what we could be dark addictive uniquethis is hands down my favorite beauty and the beast retelling so far It manages to stick to the original story while having an extremely unique and beautiful twist to it by adding in Russian fairy tale and folklore into the main plot.Just giving you a prior head up here this doesn t stick to Disney Movie kind of beauty and beastSO TRUST ME,,there are no talking teacups any household item here The beast is not a pining softie in this one I mean he still is but like in a subtler and endearing way image error There are no light hearted breaking out into huge song sequences bummer but stil...
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- 20 May 2018 Meagan Spooner
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- 384 pages
- Meagan Spooner
- Hunted