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A review by abookaholic
Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
2.0
Yayy I'm done okay I have thoughts
If I had read it years ago when I first found out about this book I may have liked it.
I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it.
I'm not sure it's a good thing because as a reader I am used to be moved by books. When you don't care at all it means they may not have been written well.
I liked the idea. I see what the author tried to do but I think the execution is off. Made me want to be a book agent just so I could salvage it.
It wasn't bad, it just wasn't good.
And I really think that the author forgot where she was going with this because the story kept shifting but not in a mind blowing cliffhanger kind of way. Could have been better.
This story is SO not feminist, I forgot it did made me a little mad at some point. (Feel free to read this in a childish mockery voice)
This is the whole plot of the book if you're debating whether to read it or not:
"Well I am a princess and my daddy sent me to marry a man, thank God my aunt who sleeps with him after mom died told me how sex works well thank you. Now we are married and I suddenly feel... loyal to him. I hate him and I don't know him but he is still my husband and I shouldn't betray him by kissing a shadow that looks just like him!
But wait! Only a virgin girl can kill him (why the fuck does it effects her strength and or fighting skills but OKAY) so thank god I am one! Wohoo!
But oh no, he was nice to me just now. After I almost killed him... what if I... well... we ARE married so It would be okay.
Oopsies now I can't kill him!
Okay wait I think I love him.
I think I am in love with him in a fire that burns so bright it could consume the whole earth! (Should I mention that they have known each other for barely few weeks AND that he is the long lost prince. She's the princess. Make that one plus one and let's hope it had been more then 7 generations passed between them)
I promised my sister I will end him, and even though I love him this is the right thing to do after he killed my mother. So I ended him and now I don't remember him and its my wedding day but wait, I do remember him! And I made a bargin to save him bc I want to sleep with him again.
The end"
If I had read it years ago when I first found out about this book I may have liked it.
I didn't like it, but I didn't hate it.
I'm not sure it's a good thing because as a reader I am used to be moved by books. When you don't care at all it means they may not have been written well.
I liked the idea. I see what the author tried to do but I think the execution is off. Made me want to be a book agent just so I could salvage it.
It wasn't bad, it just wasn't good.
And I really think that the author forgot where she was going with this because the story kept shifting but not in a mind blowing cliffhanger kind of way. Could have been better.
This story is SO not feminist, I forgot it did made me a little mad at some point. (Feel free to read this in a childish mockery voice)
This is the whole plot of the book if you're debating whether to read it or not:
"Well I am a princess and my daddy sent me to marry a man, thank God my aunt who sleeps with him after mom died told me how sex works well thank you. Now we are married and I suddenly feel... loyal to him. I hate him and I don't know him but he is still my husband and I shouldn't betray him by kissing a shadow that looks just like him!
But wait! Only a virgin girl can kill him (why the fuck does it effects her strength and or fighting skills but OKAY) so thank god I am one! Wohoo!
But oh no, he was nice to me just now. After I almost killed him... what if I... well... we ARE married so It would be okay.
Oopsies now I can't kill him!
Okay wait I think I love him.
I think I am in love with him in a fire that burns so bright it could consume the whole earth! (Should I mention that they have known each other for barely few weeks AND that he is the long lost prince. She's the princess. Make that one plus one and let's hope it had been more then 7 generations passed between them)
I promised my sister I will end him, and even though I love him this is the right thing to do after he killed my mother. So I ended him and now I don't remember him and its my wedding day but wait, I do remember him! And I made a bargin to save him bc I want to sleep with him again.
The end"