Hunted by Meagan Spooner

Hunted

by Meagan Spooner

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won’t soon be able to forget.

Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones—and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering its secrets.

So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and 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. The Beast.

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical 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?

Reviewed by Kait ✨ on

4 of 5 stars

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Sarah J. Maas is totally my guilty pleasure, but this is the book I wished [b:A Court of Thorns and Roses|16096824|A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)|Sarah J. Maas|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1491595796s/16096824.jpg|21905102] was when it first came out back in 2015. The writing is lyrical and beautiful and makes the story feel like a fairy tale. It’s set in old Rus’ so has a Russian flavour which is fantastic and totally up my alley. The setting, the characters, the plot, the themes all echo traditional fairy tales even while putting a distinctly feminist twist on them. (It’s very reminiscent of [b:The Bear and the Nightingale|25489134|The Bear and the Nightingale|Katherine Arden|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470731420s/25489134.jpg|45268929] in this sense.) The pacing is definitely slow so if you don’t enjoy quieter novels this is probably not for you.

Also, there is a dog named Doe-Eyes in this book who is a complete show-stealer. She’s worth reading this book for. :)

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