Creators: Liked 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.
LikedAnd it's this really cool kind of reversal of the fairy tale, which I thought was really cool. It is a standalone, like it all wraps up by the end of the book, so I thought that was really nice. And I think it had some really interesting themes about beauty and kind of turned a lot of the tropes in Beauty and the Beast on their head.
Likedi think i read all four of these and i did enjoy them but they're just old y.a retellings and i'm not going to reread them
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