![]() This brings a richness to the worldbuilding and to mysteries Nyx has to solve. Her anger and her complicated relationship with her sister, who Nyx loves yet resents, made Nyx a compelling character I immediately cared about.I enjoyed the way Cruel Beauty draws upon more than just the Beauty and the Beast story - there are references to, and echoes of, other familiar stories, too. She's angry that she is sacrificed because of a bargain her father made while her twin sister is spared. She's been trained to destroy the Gentle Lord, but that training has been Hermetic techniques (which is to say, magic) rather than in weapons she doesn't identify as an assassin.And Nyx is incredibly angry about her fate. ![]() ![]() I'd made assumptions about Nyx's skillset and mindset that turned out to be quite wrong. As I read this, I was struck by how many assumptions I had apparently made when I first heard about it. ![]()
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