Cruel Beauty (by Rosamund Hodge)

Star: 4

Age rating: 14+

pages: 357

Number in series: 1 (Cruel Beauty)

Novella: 1 (Gilded Ashes)

Positive review: I love how a poisoned heart falls for a man, a beast, and their love saves the world.

Negative review: Shade should have told her the risks before trying to kill her.

Overall review: Beauty and the Beast, meet Nyx and Ignifex. This was a really good book.

Description: The Gentle Lord makes bargains that usually end up with someone dead. Nyx's father made a bargain with him for two healthy daughters, saying that he would marry off one of them to the Gentle Lord. Nyx is the unlucky one who is chosen to be the Gentle Lord's bride; but the problem is, he has had 8 wives before, and they're all dead.