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Hunted / Meagan Spooner.
New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won't soon be able to forget.Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas . . . or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. 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. The Beast.Deaf to her sisters' protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory--a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva's only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
Record details
- ISBN: 9780062661685
- ISBN: 006266168X
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (9 hr., 23 min., 45 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2017.
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| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Will Damron and Saskia Maarleveld. |
| Source of Description Note: | Hard copy version record. |
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| Genre: | Young adult fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Action and adventure fiction. Adaptations. Fiction. Young adult works. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. Romances. |
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2017 January #1
The story of Beauty and the Beast is intriguingly reimagined in this offering from the author of the Skylark trilogy. Yeva, known as Beauty to her beloved family, enjoys the pleasures of her aristocratic life, but is not satisfied by it. Her father loses his fortune in a failed business venture, forcing Yeva and her sisters to move to his remote lodge in the forest. When her father goes missing in the woods, Beauty, an accomplished hunter, goes after him. She soon finds herself the prisoner of a cursed beast who needs Beauty's skills for his own purposes. Interestingly, there is no real villain; Yeva's sisters love her, and her fiance is not a cad. The story does not rest so much on Beauty finding the man beneath the beastly exterior as it does recognizing the shared longing that imprisons them both, and how she is eventually able to save him. Alternately delicate and brutal, this is an evocative retelling that grounds itself within the universal magic of storytelling. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews. - Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2017 Fall
"Beauty and the Beast" meets Russian folklore in this tale of hunter Yeva/Beauty; she swears vengeance on the Beast, who drove her hunter father mad. The plot follows the well-known fairy tale, and a romance builds slowly and believably. Complex characters add emotional depth to this novel about making choices in life and living with what you thought you wanted. Copyright 2017 Horn Book Guide Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2016 December #1
A rich, Russian-influenced retelling of "Beauty and the Beast."Bored by her comfortable life in town, Yeva (Beauty) longs for the woods. But when her merchant father loses their fortune and retreats to the wilderness with Yeva and her older sisters, Lena (Light) and Asenka (Grace), Yeva must remember her woodcraft in order to protect her family. Preferring solitude to her persistent suitor, Solmir, and a brewing love triangleâAsenka is drawn to SolmirâYeva hunts, first for game, then for the Beast. Blaming the Beast for her father's absence, Yeva becomes his captive, then his would-be assassinâtrained to kill for him but also hoping to kill himâyet struggles to reconcile his violence and humanity. Building upon a familiar tale, Spooner creates a detailed world populated by complex characters, with medieval household mundanities and retellings of Russian folk tales anchoring the later fantastic elements. No Disney heroine, white, red-haired Yeva is also âappreciablyânot an instantly lethal, superpowered heroine, although she is single-mindedly bent first on survival, then on revenge. Love blooms slowly, but this is an old-fashioned romance reminiscent of Robin McKinley's and Patricia McKillip's novels, concerned with the power of stories. An elegant, classic, and vivid fairy tale. (Fantasy. 12 & up) Copyright Kirkus 2016 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2017 January #2
In this standalone tale from Spooner, coauthor of the Starbound trilogy, a merchant named Tvertko loses his fortune and moves his daughtersâLena, Asenka, and Yevaâto a remote cabin. Once a legendary hunter, Tvertko has difficulty finding prey and comes to believe that a fearsome Beast is scaring off the other animals. Tvertko ventures into the woods to slay the creature but fails to return. Yeva strikes out after him and is captured by the Beast, who imprisons her in a castle. As Yeva fights for survival and escape, she learns that the fairy tales of her youth are more grounded in reality than she ever imagined. After a slow start, Spooner's take on Beauty and the Beast finds its groove when Yeva (also known as Beauty) finally encounters the Beast. Yeva's narration is interspersed with snippets from the Beast's perspective, adding depth, and while the plot is largely predictable, this emotionally complex story satisfies. Spooner writes eloquently about magic, her world building is excellent, and the book's characters are nuanced and well drawn. Ages 13âup. Agent: Josh Adams, Adams Literary. (Mar.)
Copyright 2017 Publisher Weekly. - Voice of Youth Advocates Reviews : VOYA Reviews 2017 February
Yeva, called Beauty by her father, is the youngest of a wealthy merchant's three daughters and the only one who loves hunting with him. One day he receives word that his caravan of trade goods has been captured and he has lost everything. The family must sell their home and move to his cabin in the woods so that the father can hunt to earn a living. Something follows him in the woods and when he does not come back one day, Yeva sets out to find him. She is captured by the Beast and during her long captivity, she vows to avenge her father's death by killing the Beast. Slowly, though, she discovers that the Beast is not what he seems. This beautifully told story blends two fairytale traditions: Beauty and the Beast, written by an eighteenth-century French novelist; and the Firebird of Slavic tradition. Yeva is the Beauty who learns to love the Beast. She is also the hero who embarks on a difficult journey to capture the Firebird and break the spell. Unlike the cardboard heroes of fairytales, however, Yeva is a very human girl who must discover the meaning of the deep yearning that has always been within her. The author's other characters are well-developed, too, and her depictions of the snowy forests and magical valleys through which Yeva must travel will keep the reader spellbound. Although the captivity part of the narrative could have been compressed, this compelling story will have broad appeal.âMarla Unruh. Amazing. That one word describes the whole book. The story is a more realistic version of Beauty and the Beast. Readers follow Yeva, a hunter's youngest daughter, who is searching for her missing father when she is kidnapped and forced to hunt for her captor. This story will keep readers wanting more, using everything they can remember from the original story to try to predict what's next in this one. The one disappointing aspect was the lack of singing teacups, clocks, and candlesticks. But, really, it didn't matter too much. 4P, 5Q.âTy Johnson, Teen Reviewer. 5Q 5P M J S Copyright 2017 Voya Reviews.
