"Hunted" Book Club Ideas

We decided to read this book because it was coming out around the same time as the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast and this book is a retelling of that same fairytale. We liked that it was a little different than the original and had it's own way to tell a story and Beauty is a skillful tracker and hunter in this story. You will have to read it to find out more.

“To the girl
who reads by flashlight
who sees dragons in the clouds
who feels most alive in worlds that never were
who knows magic is real
who dreams
This is for you”
― Meagan Spooner, Hunted

Book Review for "Hunted" {by Meagan Spooner}

TITLE OF THE BOOK: Hunted
AUTHOR: Meagan Spooner
PUBLISHER: Harper Teen
NUMBER OF PAGES: 374

YEAR PUBLISHED: 2017
READING LEVEL: Young Adult
GENRE: Fantasy, Fairytale Retelling

SYNOPSIS:

Beauty knows the Beast’s forest in her bones—and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city’s highest aristocrats, far from her father’s old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering them. 

So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. 

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange Beast back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

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