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Of Beast and Beauty (Daughters of Eville Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Chanda Hahn (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.4 3,539 ratings

Book 1 of 7: Daughters of Eville

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Everyone dreams of marrying a prince—except for me. I am nothing more than a pawn in my adoptive mother’s diabolical plot against the seven kingdoms. I was the chosen tool, her sharpened blade that would cut the deepest into the heart of the Kingdom of Baist. But like all deadly weapons, my wedding is two-edged sword that could cost me my soul.

For I am Rosalie, one of the adopted daughters of Lady Eville, and it is my duty to enter into a loveless and hate-filled marriage with the narcissistic Crown Prince of Baist. My choices and heart are not my own to give. Yet even in the thick of dire situations, beastly vengeance can give way to beautiful attraction.

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Chanda Hahn is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of Reign. She uses her experience as a children's pastor, children's librarian and bookseller to write compelling and popular fiction for teens. She was born in Seattle, WA, grew up in Nebraska and currently resides in Wisconsin with her husband and their twin children.

She dreams of owning a coffee shop where she can continue to write young adult fairytales with fae princes, strong heroines, dragons, elves, and evil villains while drinking coffee all day. Pretty much what she does at home but in public and wearing real pants.

Series by Chanda Hahn

Unfortunate Fairy Tales
The Neverwood Chronicles
The Iron Butterfly Series
The Underland Chronicles

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07QSDT9KP
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Neverwood Press (June 18, 2019)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 18, 2019
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 5437 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 312 pages

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3CrazyCats

Very enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2024

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Fun. This retelling of a traditional fairy tale was very entertaining. I enjoyed the story, the characters, and the pace.

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Ava Marcano

Irritated but I liked this!

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024

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I enjoyed this well enough. I think the plot was good, the writing was good, the characters were likeable and unlikable respectively. Those little plot twists were juicy and unexpected near the end. Things I didn't like were Rosalie caring sooo much about Baist when they didn't reciprocate and Xander saying that he was being rude to her because he fell for her so quickly to wrap it all up in a nice bow. The final battle I feel needed a little something more and I was upset that she didn't get to go off on her father for his own treachery. But even with that I liked this book. I need to see Rosalie in her power though. This needs a second part.

Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2024

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I thought this was a cute book. Normally I read spicy books and this is not spicy, but I will definitely read the others in the series. I like the retellings of fairytales and this was just that. Xander and Rosalie were enemies to lovers, there was twists to have you guessing. I can’t wait to read about the other sisters.

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Another great twist on a classic

Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2020

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Beauty and the Beast must be my favorite fairytale. Goodness knows I've read dozens of interpretations. This one by Hahn rates up toward the top. In fact, now I'm interested in the others in the series. She writes about complex characters who seem stuck in their roles, full of prejudice, and unbendable. And yet they learn, they grow, they change and learn to love. Magic plays a big part of the story throughout. I loved how strong the emotions came through. My heart ached for Rosalie. I cheered whenever she stood her ground and put Prince Xander in his place. And even though we were never in Xander's point of view. Hahn did a great job giving subtle hints that let me know his true feelings, even if Rose didn't catch on. It made the push and pull, the ups and downs of conflict and tension between them even weightier. This is definitely worth your time if you like Beauty and the Beast.

I give the book a solid 5 and a PG rating. The physical attraction is handled well, and the closed door intimacy is between husband and wife.

1-5 scale and what it means:
1: I couldn’t even finish it / just plain bad
2: I hope I didn’t pay for this / disappointing
3: I didn’t hate it, but it was still missing something / forgettable but inoffensive
3.5: On the line between good and ok / like, not love
4: Solid mind candy / worth reading
4.5: So very close to perfection! / must read
5: I could not put it down and I’m still thinking about it! / a true treasure

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2021

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This story was ok, but some of the things in it made no sense to me. The Prince was such a complete jerk that it made no sense that this girl would develop feelings of any sort other than animosity towards him. But in true romance story fashion, typical sheltered helicoptered girl falls weak at the knees and turns to jelly for the first guy who kisses her and for no other reason. She takes every bit of his verbal, and mental abuse, even his physical abuse, and still justifies it all her mind and builds it up to more than it is and convinces herself she’s in love with him. All over her first lousy kiss when he didn’t even know it was her he was kissing, and he was drunk to boot which only cheapened it more.

Spoilers ahead! You have been warned!

Add that major fault to zero actual character development, an inconsistent magic system that makes half sense but has gaping holes mentioned in other reviews, outlandish character reactions to simple things that seem out of place with the context of the scene, and the tired romance trope of the lead female being knocked up at the end after one solitary night with her prince, and the prince finding her again, and seeing her knocked up, and professing his never ending love to her out of nowhere and everything just being all hunky dory at the end because of it, and you have a very uninspired romance novel. Sorry for the massive run on sentence.

I tried to enjoy this story as it was pretty clean and not crass. But it just made my eyes roll several times to be truly enjoyable. When she fought down one villain only to be turned on and taken prisoner by the antagonist kingdom. Then getting there and being treated like a guest and not a prisoner only to be treated like a prisoner again. None of it made a flipping bit of sense and just felt contrived to create a grand drama that just didn’t exist.

And I can see where the author has tried to tie the books together with an underlying subplot of Lady Eville’s grand revenge fantasy, and then another subplot I can see threading through all of the books with this big bad necromancer and his apprentice, but I’m not sure these weak subplots are interesting enough to make me care enough to read the entire rest of the series. If I’m bored enough I suppose I might actually pay for the final book to see how she ends the subplots, but I’m not sure I really care enough to pay for the 5 remaining books total to see all of the steps she takes to get from where she left the subplots, to how she ends them at the end of the series.

It was an interesting read but ultimately forgettable in its mediocrity of over used romance tropes and lack of defined magic system rules. Read it for yourself and see if it strikes a different cord for you then it did for me.

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Jaidis Shaw

A story of revenge, betrayal, and love!

Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2022

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Lady Eville is set on getting revenge and so when she receives an invitation to Prince Xander's wedding she knows she finally has an opening. She selects her oldest adopted daughter Rosalie and goes to Xander's kingdom and the next day everything has changed and Rosalie finds herself married to Prince Xander. Lady Eville has finally gotten revenge but this story is so much more.

Of Beast and Beauty is the first book in the Daughters of Eville series and is an enemy to lovers story. Lady Eville has adopted seven daughters, one from each of the kingdoms. Nobody really knows how she has come to adopt these daughters but each is beautiful and powerful with magic. Rosalie is the first daughter, beautiful and fair, and the most powerful. This story is full of secrets, betrayal, revenge, hope, and love. Even though there is hate, on both Xander and Rosalie's sides, Rosalie still helps and does what needs to be done because she is true to her word. While both Xander and Rosalie are trying to find a way out of their marriage, they are also finding themselves conflicted about their feelings toward one another. This was a really good read and I can't wait to see what happens in book two with another of Rosalie's sisters.

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Claudia

Cute and sweet story

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2024

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Quick read and an enjoyable story, the ending felt both rushed and dragged out but was genuinely a good read.

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Cliente Kindle

Amazing and Epic// Incrível e épico

Reviewed in Brazil on December 21, 2022

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It was amazing.
Enemies to lovers, each character had it's own plot twist and this is the reason why it's so fluid to read.
Rose is a great female lead. Her way to think and act it's interesting and her interactions with the others ( especially the ones with her sister) are fascinating.
Xander is also a great character even though I hated him some times.
You can think that it's going to be like every Retelling but it's totally new in some form.
There's not just Belle or a Beast and a "Gaston "( The hunter) There's much more and more.
It keeps you until the end. Epic and Amazing!!

Foi uma leitura incrível.
Um Enemies to lovers onde cada personagem parece ter seu próprio plot twist te deixando ansioso para saber mais e torna a história muito fluída.
Rose é uma ótima protagonista feminina. O jeitinho dela é interessante e as interações dela com os outros são sempre fascinantes. (especialmente com as irmãs dela)
Xander também é muito bom mesmo que eu tenha odiado ele algumas vezes.
Você pode pensar que vai ser como qualquer releitura mas é algo realmente novo. Não existe apenas uma bela , uma fera e um caçador , tem muito mais. A magia transborda nesse mundo mesmo que muitos odeiem ela . E te prende até o fim. Incrível e épico!!

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Stephanie

Must read for fairytale and witchcraft lovers

Reviewed in Canada on June 20, 2021

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A beautiful retailing of beauty and the beast but with a fresh storyline and amazing characters and twist!! Will definitely be reading the rest of the series as they tie together uniquely

Lea Lea 26

Magical!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2023

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Beautiful story, I loved every second of this book. I couldn't put it down i just had to know what happened next. The characters are easy to love as well as the magic and secrets. Brilliant book. Will be reading again once ive made my way through the series!!