I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the BEASTLY BEAUTY by Jennifer Donnelly Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my
post and make sure to enter the giveaway!
About the Book:
Title: BEASTLY BEAUTY
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Pub. Date: May 7, 2024
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Formats: Hardcover, eBook, Audiobook
Pages: 336
Find it: Goodreads, https://books2read.com/BEASTLY-BEAUTY
*"A dreamy, sublimely written tale." -- Publishers
Weekly, starred review
From New York Times bestselling,
award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped
retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how
you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart.
What makes a girl "beastly?" Is it having too much
ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting
something, anything, too badly?
That's the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in
society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well,
but try as she might, Arabella can't extinguish the fire burning inside her --
the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams.
When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically
backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and
everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass,
Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault -- after all, there's nothing
more "beastly" than a girl who expresses her anger -- and the only
way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true self: a cruel task
for a girl who's been told she's impossible to love.
When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the
castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the
curse. But Beau -- spooked by the castle's strange and forbidding
ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at
night -- only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an
illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must
learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of
all are the ones we build for ourselves.
My Thoughts: I do love Jennifer Donnelly's books. This was a different twist on the Beauty and the Beast story. I admit, I took me a little bit to get into it. I really liked the architecture moments. This was a really clever book. I do wish there had been a list of names because my brain doesn't work like that. There were lots of twists that I didn't see coming. The descriptions of the book were fantastic. I loved how this book talked about female emotions and how powerful they are. I loved the message of this book - and the ending.
About Jennifer:
Jennifer Donnelly is the author of A Northern Light,
which was awarded a Printz Honor and a Carnegie Medal; Revolution (named
a Best Book by Amazon, Kirkus Reviews, School Library
Journal, and the Chicago Public Library, and nominated for a Carnegie
Medal); the Deep Blue series; and many other books for young readers,
including Lost in a Book, which spent more than 20 weeks on
the New York Times bestseller list. She lives in New York's
Hudson Valley.
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Giveaway Details:
1 winner will receive a finished copy of BEASTLY BEAUTY, US
Only.
Ends June 4th, midnight
EST.
