by Sarah Cross
April 2012
EgmontUSA
She'd never looked more beautiful, more perfect, than she did when she was dead.
Before I say anything else about this book, there is something about it that you have to know. I just wouldn't feel right not warning you about the terrible, horrible thing that happens on page 331 of this book. The thing that makes you curse your very existence and gnash your teeth as you shake your first at the heavens screaming "Why?! Why has this thing happened to me?!" That's right, this book . . . ends. You heard me. After 331 pages of delicious bad boys, twisted fairy tales, and dark forbidden romance this book ended. *sob* It wasn't even a bad ending. Everything is very nicely wrapped up, HOWEVER, the author must understand that she cannot simply create an amazing world with such seriously messed up characters and not expect us to need more of their stories. That's right, Sarah Cross is putting the grimm back in fairy tales.
Mirabelle has spent her entire life with her two guardians who have told her nothing about her parents nor her birthplace, Beau Rivage, beyond warning her that she must never go there. Fed up with the secrecy surrounding her beginnings, Mira runs away from home right before her sixteenth birthday to find her parents' graves. Upon arriving in Beau Rivage, Mira begins to notice that the town's inhabitant's seem a little off. Especially since her new friends include a very pale girl who likes apples, a charming boy who wields swords, and an obnoxious playboy with a beastly personality. Mira feels like she has fallen into a fairy tale but which character is she? And will she have a happily-ever-after?
Fast paced and utterly enchanting, I highly recommend this fairy tale where good and evil are not always as black and white as they seem.
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