Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe #1)
Rosamund Hodge
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
3.56
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Behind closed doors [?]
· 170 ratings · 352 pages · Published: 28 Jan 2014
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 kingdom-all 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 castle-a shifting maze of magical rooms-enthralls 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.
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Tagged as:
- fantasy 11
- paranormal 11
- forbidden love 10
- dark romance 10
- mystery 10
- demons 10
- love triangle 9
- contemporary 8
- royal hero 8
- take-charge heroine 8
- insta-love 8
- dystopian 8
- magic 8
- new adult 8
- bad boys 7
- virgin heroine 5
- enemies to lovers 5
- high fantasy 5
- other man/woman 5
- vengeance 4
- arranged/forced marriage 4
- sassy heroine 4
- non-human hero 4
- cruel hero/bully 3
- monsters 3
- young adult 2
- futuristic 2
- fem-dom 2
- bdsm 2
- suspense 2
- fae 2
- m-f romance 2
- angst 1
- sunny/happy hero 1
- tortured hero 1
- competent heroine 1
- tortured heroine 1
- cheating 1
- Add topics
- content warnings
- death / grief 2
- Format
- audiobook
- first person pov 1
- standalone 1
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The 'Cruel Beauty Universe' series
3.56 · 170 ratings
dark · length-medium · sassy heroine · royalty · forbidden love · dystopian · vengeance · from hate to love · new adult · high fantasy · fae · angst · standalone · tortured hero · standalone-first · m-f · erotica · audiobook · contemporary · strong heroine
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