Mir persönlich gefällt das Cover unheimlich gut und es macht mich total neugierig auf die Story. Die Schöne und das Biest habe ich schon immer geliebt und nachdem die Autorin mich mit ihrer neuen Interpretation von Romeo & Julia total begeistern konnte, bin ich unheimlich gespannt auf ihre Neuerzählung dieses Werkes. Hoffentlich lässt die deutsche Übersetzung nicht allzu lange auf sich warten.

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 city’s 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 city’s 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 Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.

As secrets are revealed and Isra’s 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.