I love the new themes the author explores in this old template. It obviously follows the familiar B&tB format, whilst doing something completely new and fresh with it. And I'm so glad I did.Ĭruel Beauty is still my favourite Beauty & the Beast retelling, but this comes in at a close second. 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. After putting it off again and again for other books, I decided to let it expire. I got an arc of Hunted from edelweiss months ago. “She wept because she did not know what she wanted, and because she wanted everything.”Ĥ 1/2 stars. In her spare time she plays guitar, plays video games, plays with her cat, and reads. She's the author of the award-winning Starbound trilogy (These Broken Stars, This Shattered World, Their Fractured Light) and the Skylark Trilogy (Skylark, Shadowlark, Lark Ascending) as well as the upcoming Beauty and the Beast retelling Hunted.

She currently lives and writes in Asheville, North Carolina, but the siren call of travel is hard to resist, and there's no telling how long she'll stay there. She's traveled with her family all over the world to places like Egypt, South Africa, the Arctic, Greece, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, and there's a bit of every trip in every story she writes. She graduated from Hamilton College in New York with a degree in playwriting, and has spent several years since then living in Australia. New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner grew up reading and writing every spare moment of the day, while dreaming about life as an archaeologist, a marine biologist, an astronaut.

Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast? A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. 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.ĭeaf 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. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. 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. Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones-and in her blood.

Hunted spooner