Meagan Spooner deftly captures the reader’s interest and holds it fiercely from beginning to end.

Ultimately, this want drives Yeva to her destiny. Through the retelling of tales from her childhood, to the battles she must fight in the realm, she discovers the truth of this want. It is this desire that Yeva begins to understand in the Beast’s magical realm. This want to discover who she is, and who she is becoming. She cannot name it but knows she is missing it. There is a part of her that longs for something. But, deep down she knows that to wait is to lose her father. At first, when her father goes missing, Yeva waits. However, despite her relief to be back near the Beast’s forest, a longing remains within Yeva. She feels every beat of the hunt in her blood. She is fearless, more at home in the woods with a bow in hand than in a ballroom. Instead of a Gaston, you have……Yeva? Yes! While the original Beauty was never a damsel in distress, Yeva is in a class all by herself. True to the original story, Hunted ups it’s appeal factor by bringing in Russian folklore. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?įans of Beauty and the Beast stories will adore this magical re-telling of a classic fairy tale. 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 …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.

Official Synopsis for Hunted: Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones-and in her blood.

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