The Treachery of Beautiful Things
A darkly compelling mix of romance, fairy tale, and suspense from a new voice in teen fiction The trees swallowed her brother whole, and Jenny was there to see it. Now seventeen, she revisits the woods where Tom was taken, resolving to say good-bye at last. Instead, she's lured into the trees,...
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A darkly compelling mix of romance, fairy tale, and suspense from a new voice in teen fiction The trees swallowed her brother whole, and Jenny was there to see it. Now seventeen, she revisits the woods where Tom was taken, resolving to say good-bye at last. Instead, she's lured into the trees, where she finds strange and dangerous creatures who seem to consider her the threat. Among them is Jack, mercurial and magnetic, with secrets of his own. Determined to find her brother, with or without Jack's help, Jenny struggles to navigate a faerie world where stunning beauty masks some of the most treacherous evils, and she's faced with a choice between salvation or sacrifice--and not just her own.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780142426067 (0142426067)
ASIN: 142426067
Publish date: August 1st 2013
Publisher: Speak
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
This book has a lovely storyline, and the concept of it is good. However it took me months to finish it, I just couldn't keep my attention focused on it, meanwhile I finished 2 other books. I love retellings of Tatiana and Mab and the faery courts. This concept of the May Queen coming to the Realm t...
Sinisterly Beautiful!Filled with beautiful imagery and mysterious characters. This story really brought out the dangerous world of the fey and kept you guessing. You never could tell who was truly a friend or a foe. I liked that things weren't always so black and white in this story as far as what c...
This was a hard read, not because it was awful, rather I just had a hard time keeping up with the story. For some reasons, I'd get distracted by something else every other page or two. But after a hundred pages or so, it was all good.God, I love Jack. He's probably the main reason why I'm giving thi...
I LOVED this book! I've always had a special place in my heart for fairy tales. After all, they are the original urban fantasy. As they say in the song, Treachery made all the right moves in all the right places. There was one dream sequence that was not handled well, but aside from that technical n...