Crazy Beautiful
In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.Then he meets Aurora....
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In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He chose hooks so that everyone would know he was different, so he would scare even himself.Then he meets Aurora. The hooks don’t scare her. They don’t keep her away. In fact, they don’t make any difference at all to her.But to Lucius, they mean everything. They remind him of the beast he is inside. Perhaps Aurora is his Beauty, destined to set his soul free from its suffering.Or maybe she’s just a girl who needs love just like he does.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780547391618 (0547391617)
Publish date: January 3rd 2011
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Pages no: 208
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Fairy Tales,
Contemporary,
High School,
Retellings,
Beauty And The Beast,
Young Adult Contemporary
If there are few YA books with black, Hispanic or Asian protagonists, and even fewer with gay protagonists, the disabled barely make an appearance. I don't mean Nora-I'm-aenemic-so-that's-why-I'm-pale Gray, or Dice-my-psychic-powers-were-diagnosed-as-rare-epilepsy. I mean people who have actually lo...
I gobbled this up quickly, too quickly. I loved this for the same reason I love Sarah Dessen: it's about young people, with complicated backstories, who are trying to make their lives just a little bit better. Aurora is trying to recapture the fun of life that she's missed in the long years of he...
A book I never would have picked up for myself just based on the cover alone, but a really amazing story about how not everyone is really what they seem and that it is okay to give someone a chance even if they are different.
I'm not sure why this is getting such rave reviews. It was ok as far as books go. I definitely thought the ending was abrupt. I was hoping it was going to be more like Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles, which I loved, but it wasn't nearly as great. I don't know, the whole premise of Lucius and...
Giving your main character hooks for hands is a dirty trick. It made me hold out hope for this damn book until the end but it was hopless.Terrible and slow and amateurish and......fucking hook hands! I fall for it every time!
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