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Cruel Beauty

  • 2014 first published
  • 357 pages
  • ★ 3.8 (6 ratings)
  • 4 editions

Rosamund Hodge's Cruel Beauty (2014) is a demon fiction novel. Readers will find themes of marriage, assassins, forced marriage and Demonology.

Open Library readers give it an average of 3.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, and 67 more have it on their want-to-read list. It has been published in 4 editions.

It runs to roughly 357 pages — 6–7 hours of reading at an average pace.

About Cruel Beauty

Betrothed to the demon who rules her country and trained all her life to kill him, seventeen-year-old Nyx Triskelion must now fulfill her destiny and move to the castle to be his wife.
Description from Open Library

Themes, setting & tropes

Genres

Tropes

Subjects

  • Children's fiction
  • Fantasy fiction
  • Marriage
  • Fantasy
  • Beauty and the beast, Tale
  • Assassins
  • Forced marriage
  • Demonology
  • Blessing and cursing
  • Arranged marriage

Quick answers

Who wrote Cruel Beauty?

Cruel Beauty was written by Rosamund Hodge and first published in 2014.

What genre is Cruel Beauty?

It is usually shelved as Demons & Devils.

How long is Cruel Beauty?

The median edition has 357 pages, about 6–7 hours of reading at 250 words per minute.

What books are similar to Cruel Beauty?

Readers who like it often enjoy As Old As Time, Belle and Beauty and the Basement.

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