Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday startades av Jill på bloggen Breaking the Spine och går ut på att visa en kommande bok som man längtat lite extra efter.

Of Beast and Beauty - Stacey Jay

Releasedatum: 23 juli, 2013

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...

In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.

Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.

As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.

Kommentar

Ni som har följt bloggen ett tag vet säkert att jag är ett stort fan av retellings. Jag tycker dessutom väldigt mycket om "Skönheten och odjuret", så den här boken är ganska så perfekt eftersom det är en retelling av just den sagan. Tycker att det låter som en ganska annorlunda tolkning,

 och hoppas på att den är lika bra som jag tror att den är.