The relationship with her sister is more difficult, but it is understandable, too, why she hates and loves her at the same time. Nyx kind of hates her family – but has more than enough reason to, if you ask me. (I would like to say this book is Beauty and the Beast remodeled, but the Beast is actually kind of good-looking, and the Beauty is much different from the original story, as well, so I’m not going to say it) There is no real depiction of how she looks (only that she looks like her father, whereas her twin sister looks like their dead mother), which I loved. Nyx moves to his castle with all the anger and fury she has collected in her seventeen years bundled up inside her, ready to kill her husband – after all, this is what she has been trained to do, right? But what happens when the monster you expect turns out to be much different from all the stories you have learned? The Gentle Lord is the ruler of Nyx’s kingdom – and on her seventeenth birthday, he also becomes her husband. Nyx has been trained all her life to kill the Gentle Lord, to whom she was betrothed because of her father’s bargain with him. He must deserve his name ‘The Gentle Lord’ after all.
There are demonic powers, hatred, fear, and a creepy house, but surprisingly, it is the evil lord who lightens the mood with his sarcastic wit and, at times, also his gentleness. Let me tell you why.īut first, I have to say that this was not a light and fluffy romance with only bits of darker fantasy in it, it is actually quite dark altogether. In Rosamund Hodge’s Cruel Beauty, both the hero as well as the heroine are evil, but you’ll still like them. What a book! I have loved every bit of this book so much that I had to finish it in a day! Yet, it was also very different to the usual romantic fantasy with the nice and good-hearted heroine and the evil hero who only needs love to open up his hard shell and expose the soft core.
“Don’t look at the shadows too long, or a demon might look back.” (p.54)
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