Kingdom of Beauty, Deborah Grace White
Kingdom of Beauty, Deborah Grace White
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Kingdom of Beauty
A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast

Author: Deborah Grace White

Narrator: Rachael Beresford

Unabridged: 11 hr 46 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/26/2022


Synopsis

After a lifetime with a grief-stricken father and a self-absorbed brother, Felicity isn't daunted by sacrifice. But when protecting her father means falling afoul of the curse that has swallowed the Summer Castle, and Prince Justin along with it, her own safety is not all that's at stake. The prince's monstrous form is the least of her concerns—the whole castle has been trapped by his pride, and his absence from the capital is driving the kingdom to ruin.

Justin was born to be a king, not a beast. Between the inhuman coldness he learned from his father, the humiliation of his cursed form, and his powerlessness against his hidden enemies back in the capital, laughter is the last thing on his mind. But even though she's a prisoner, nothing seems to dampen the intruder's maddening cheerfulness. Justin has to break his curse, and he needs someone like Felicity to do it. But as she begins to thaw the ice around his heart, he discovers her past is not what it seems.

With time running out, not just for the castle's inhabitants, but for the kingdom of Albury, they will need more than the help of a dragon to break the curse and prevent disaster before it's too late.

About Deborah Grace White

Deborah Grace White is an author of YA fantasy and fairy tale retellings who was more or less born reading. She grew up on a wide range of books, from classic literature to light-hearted romps. Her love of fantasy was inevitable from the time her father read the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy to her and her siblings when she was four years old.

The love of reading has traveled with her unchanged across multiple continents, and carried her from her own childhood all the way to having children of her own.

But if reading is like looking through a window into a magical and beautiful world, beginning to write her own stories was like discovering that she could open that window and climb right out into fantasyland.

Now she gets to live that childhood dream from her hometown of Adelaide, Australia, where she lives with her husband and their three little ones.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Tricia

I picked up this book hoping for a sweet, adorable fairy tale retelling. What I got was a sweet, adorable fairy tale retelling with intrigue, twists and turns, DRAGONS!, and characters that absolutely stole the show! This is a good Beauty and the Beast retelling. It has all the right elements, and F......more

Delightful and Engaging I loved this story. It was uplifting, kept me turning page after page, the characters were lovable but flawed, the heroine was spunky but oh so kind, and the hero was appropriately broody. Very true to the original fairy tale and yet this book held twists that made it entirel......more