Yeva, often called Beauty by her father, is a young girl girl who has a good life – she has her father and two sisters, and maybe has caught the eye of a boy who she might one day marry. “We always know before the change comes – but we never know what the change will bring.” I haven’t read anything else by the author, so in terms of writing I wasn’t sure what to expect, but I was blown away by the beautiful style of writing and the way I was captivated by the story from the very first page. I’ve been trying to read more fantasy these days, particularly fairy tale retellings, so when I heard about Hunted by Meagan Spooner, I was incredibly delighted and knew I had to read it.

Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast? 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.

Hunted by meagan spooner