I liked the relationship between Yeva and her two sisters, they were all there for each other and took it in stride when they left their house for the woods. The Russian take on the classic story made this book all the more interesting. I felt like I was in the woods, feeling the snow bite at my cheeks it was so vivid. This book gave me one of those moments where I finished the book and realized I haven’t moved from one position for a good 2 hours. When her father doesn’t come back from a hunting trip to find food, she goes to find him and gets captured by the Beast. Yeva and her family have fall on hard times after her father loses all their money, which forces them to move into a cabin in the woods. I’m particularly drawn to the deep green of the cloak. It doesn’t hurt that that cover is beautiful. So, I have been on the search for good retellings that’ll do the story justice and Hunted has been the best one so far. I just related to her love of reading even before I became such an avid reader myself. It is universally known that Beauty and the Beast is my number one favorite Disney princess movie of all time. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast? Publisher: Harperteen Published: March 14th 2017

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.

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