A "run don't walk" book rec

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Rosamund Hodge wrote a book that shouldn't work.

It should be a hot mess.

It has everything. All of the things. ALL OF THEM. It should not work.

And yet.

CRUEL BEAUTY is a "Beauty and Beast" retelling with a Greek myth twist. It is beautiful. It has a hard girl and a monster, a ghost and a terror, a sister and a promise. It is so, so, so good.

Here is the short story that made me fall in love with Rosamund's writing (and also, probably resulted in the least useful critique letter of ALL TIME because I couldn't for the life of me write coherent sentences about it). She has the best handle on Persephone, outside of Jo Graham, that I've seen in a while.

And the short story is just a taste. CRUEL BEAUTY is even better.

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That short story was INCREDIBLE. I just bought the book for my Kobo.

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RIGHT? She is really, really good. Five of my co-workers bought the book yesterday after I talked about it non-stop for a week, and they've all emailed, texted, or posted on my facebook page about it.