Of Beast and Beauty
Stacey Jay
- 23 juli 2013
- 9780385743204
Samenvatting:
In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her citys vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the citys Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuans enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isras sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.