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With all the fervor around the Disney live-action remake, it wasn't any surprise to see novels popping up with their own versions of "Beauty and the Beast". I've read a few, but none of them have been as good as this one by Meagan Spooner. A lot of takes on the story end up with Beauty being some dainty thing that charms the Beast, they fall in love, they kiss, happily ever after. In 'Hunted', Beauty (a nickname as her real name is Yeva) isn't a dainty lady. She's a hunter, a provider, and a fighter. As the youngest of three sisters, she never feels quite like she fits in. Her father is a rich merchant, but only because he made a promise to his wife to leave his days of hunting behind. Before marriage, he was a hunter, one who would brave the deep forest to bring out animals that no one else would hunt. During Yeva's early years, before their mother's death and while the older sisters would stay at home, Yeva would go with her father, learning his ways and the song of the forest.

One day, fate turns and Yeva's father must return to hunting. An opportunity presents itself for Yeva to turn fate back around for her sisters and father, but something in her pulls her to the forest. Though she agrees, her father must still approve of her decision, but her father left on a hunting trip and hasn't returned. Days pass, and Yeva grows more worried. One day she sets out to find him, only to come face to face with terror and heartbreak that she never imagined. Soon Yeva finds herself a prisoner of the Beast, though she seems to have aa silent benefactor. For his acts of kindness, Yeva tells him stories from her childhood, stories of the brave Ivan and the beautiful Vasilisa. As the story progresses, Yeva soon learns that the stories she thought were nothing more than fairytales could turn out to have all the answers she seeks.

One of the reasons I enjoyed this version of Beauty and the Beast's story is how the Ms. Spooner has woven in old Russian fairy tales into her retelling. It makes for a fresh take on the story that we've all read/seen/heard over and over. Her telling is also closer to the original tale rather than the glossy, sanitized Disney version. I much prefer this stronger Beauty, one who struggles with what others expect of her and what she expects of herself. She's not perfect, she makes mistakes, she makes dumb choices. There's no glitz, no glamour, no singing teapots. There is heartache, loss, redemption, and a little bit of magic. I finished the book in one sitting and turned off my Kindle with a happy sigh. While I am glad this isn't yet another trilogy that should have been one book, I wouldn't have minded if this one book had a sequel. It would have been enjoyable to see how Yeva and Eoven (the Beast) fared in the immediate future, how Eoven dealt with the passage of time, if his beast nature ever resurfaced, if they encountered any more from the fairytales of Yeva's childhood.


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Hunted eBook Meagan Spooner Reviews

Ever since I read Robin McKinley's Beauty, I've had a special place in my heart for Beauty & the Beast retellings. It's crashingly disappointing when the retelling does nothing but rehash old themes, and does nothing to uncover untapped nuances from the story.

I wasn't disappointed with Hunted. It's a fitting successor for Beauty. Yeva is her father's youngest daughter-- a daughter he taught his own love of the woods and hunting before becoming a rich merchant. When the inevitable misfortune hits his business, he moves them back to the small hunting cabin in the woods where Yeva first fell in love with the forest.

Only he becomes distant, obsessed, and then disappears. Its up to Yeva to find him, but she finds an abandoned castle and a beast instead.

Beauty, Yeva, in this retelling, is as much a Hunter as the Beast. And that's the twist that I loved so much in this telling, as well as the more nuanced emotional connections to her older sisters. Yeva is first taken because she can hunt-- and the emotional journey from captive to someone who would consider the Beast as more than just a tormentor stays true to Yeva's love of the hunt. She attempts to kill the Beast, and their back and forth in harming/not harming each other really spins this tale a interesting, dark way. Yeva has lots and lots of agency in this, not much is done TO her, and that I appreciated as well.

And then there are leshy and rusalka and other Slavic myths bound up in this, so that was cool. A dark, and more active-Beauty retelling, completely worth your while.
4.5 perfectly shimmering stars !!!

I have been SO disappointed by the YA fantasy titles I've read lately, reading "Hunted" took me by surprise, and then totally wowed me. Sure, there are plenty of 4 and 5-star reviews for this novel, but a lot of horrendous books get showered in gushing praise. Especially YA fantasy titles.

I was actually inspired to pick up this book after reading a scathing 1-star review. A review that absolutely shredded the plot of this book as well as the characters.

I expected "Hunted" to be a trainwreck, a Beauty and the Beast retelling stuffed with tropes and plot holes and lackluster prose, but I was so curious about the Slavic/Russian folklore in this story that I couldn't help myself. The scathing one-star review had mentioned Slavic/Russian folklore played a role in the plot, and that was when I decided I had to read "Hunted."

And thank my fairy tale stars I did! Because this book is WONDERFUL. The very best way to spend a cold, gray afternoon at home. Sometimes the universe is kind.

The beginning was the hardest part for me, because the novel is set in medieval Russia, and there were a number of anachronisms that grated against my little history-loving brain. At first, I made note of them (as I always do when I read, especially if I think I might be reading a trainwreck). But the setting of the story soon switches, as Beauty journeys from her town to the enchanted/cursed land where the Beast lives, and the issues I had in the beginning all vanished.

The plot of this book honors the original Beauty and the Beast fairy tale in so many brilliant ways, both in structure and character, and by weaving in the Slavic/Russian folklore, author Meagan Spooner added some truly delightful and inspiring depth to this classic story.

The prose of "Hunted" is well above average. The sentences flow, and some of the descriptive passages are quite lovely. The characters are beautifully drawn. Beast is a point of view character as well as Beauty, and I really loved his chapters. The relationship between Beauty and her two sisters made me tear up, especially toward the end of the book. There is a wonderful canine named Doe-Eyes and a reinvented Gaston character named Solmir. The magic of this story world was subtle, unique, and added so well to the dialogue and plot.

The novel had a quiet, relentless drive that built toward the last fifty pages, and it was this final section of the book that made me really sit back and say, WOW. Wow. Fricking awesome.

"Hunted" is a rare YA fantasy that features a lot of emotional depth in the characters, whether they are main characters or secondary. This is a novel in which actions have consequences, psychologically as well as physically, a story in which bodies are not machines full of limitless power, but fragile objects that often struggle and suffer.

My highest praise for "Hunted" is this the novel has a depth of understanding about human nature, storytelling, and the power of reshaping stories, that made my brain explode with pleasure as I witnessed Beauty undergo the final part of her hero's journey. The finale of this book is wise and rich and perfect.

If you are a reader who loves fairy tale retellings, interesting magical worlds, or stories that weave folklore into their plots, I would recommend you add "Hunted" to your reading list.
With all the fervor around the Disney live-action remake, it wasn't any surprise to see novels popping up with their own versions of "Beauty and the Beast". I've read a few, but none of them have been as good as this one by Meagan Spooner. A lot of takes on the story end up with Beauty being some dainty thing that charms the Beast, they fall in love, they kiss, happily ever after. In 'Hunted', Beauty (a nickname as her real name is Yeva) isn't a dainty lady. She's a hunter, a provider, and a fighter. As the youngest of three sisters, she never feels quite like she fits in. Her father is a rich merchant, but only because he made a promise to his wife to leave his days of hunting behind. Before marriage, he was a hunter, one who would brave the deep forest to bring out animals that no one else would hunt. During Yeva's early years, before their mother's death and while the older sisters would stay at home, Yeva would go with her father, learning his ways and the song of the forest.

One day, fate turns and Yeva's father must return to hunting. An opportunity presents itself for Yeva to turn fate back around for her sisters and father, but something in her pulls her to the forest. Though she agrees, her father must still approve of her decision, but her father left on a hunting trip and hasn't returned. Days pass, and Yeva grows more worried. One day she sets out to find him, only to come face to face with terror and heartbreak that she never imagined. Soon Yeva finds herself a prisoner of the Beast, though she seems to have aa silent benefactor. For his acts of kindness, Yeva tells him stories from her childhood, stories of the brave Ivan and the beautiful Vasilisa. As the story progresses, Yeva soon learns that the stories she thought were nothing more than fairytales could turn out to have all the answers she seeks.

One of the reasons I enjoyed this version of Beauty and the Beast's story is how the Ms. Spooner has woven in old Russian fairy tales into her retelling. It makes for a fresh take on the story that we've all read/seen/heard over and over. Her telling is also closer to the original tale rather than the glossy, sanitized Disney version. I much prefer this stronger Beauty, one who struggles with what others expect of her and what she expects of herself. She's not perfect, she makes mistakes, she makes dumb choices. There's no glitz, no glamour, no singing teapots. There is heartache, loss, redemption, and a little bit of magic. I finished the book in one sitting and turned off my with a happy sigh. While I am glad this isn't yet another trilogy that should have been one book, I wouldn't have minded if this one book had a sequel. It would have been enjoyable to see how Yeva and Eoven (the Beast) fared in the immediate future, how Eoven dealt with the passage of time, if his beast nature ever resurfaced, if they encountered any more from the fairytales of Yeva's childhood.