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    Beastly Beauty
    Beastly Beauty
    Beastly Beauty
    Audiobook10 hours

    Beastly Beauty

    Written by Jennifer Donnelly

    Narrated by Steve West

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    About this audiobook

    *"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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic Audio Books
    Release dateMay 7, 2024
    ISBN9781546120780
    Beastly Beauty
    Author

    Jennifer Donnelly

    Jennifer Donnelly is an award-winning NYT-bestselling American author of 13 novels, best known for the historical novel A Northern Light (published as A Gathering Light in the UK). It won the 2003 Carnegie Medal, and was named one of Time Magazine's 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time in 2015. Donnelly currently lives in New York's Hudson Valley with her husband and daughter.

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    • 5/5
      This narrator is SOOO good. The book is wholesome and can be read by teenagers but is also a very mature and well written book for adults. I loved the characters and the message it left especially for woman who see themselves through the eyes of despair. The personification of emotions was so well done! What a lovely twist on a story we have always known and loved.