When the king orders her to guard his son Armand-the man she hates most-Rachelle forces Armand to help her find the legendary sword that might save their world.

Three years later, Rachelle has given her life to serving the realm, fighting deadly creatures in an effort to atone. After an illicit meeting goes dreadfully wrong, Rachelle is forced to make a terrible choice that binds her to the very evil she had hoped to defeat. But she was also reckless- straying from the forest path in search of a way to free her world from the threat of eternal darkness. Romantic, immersive, complex, and oh so satisfying, this will please fans of Hodge’s previous Cruel Beauty (BCCB 2/13) as well as readers of Rutkoski’s Winners trilogy ( The Winner’s Curse, BCCB 3/14, etc.).When Rachelle was fifteen she was good-apprenticed to her aunt and in training to protect her village from dark magic. The Crimson Petal and the White is a 2011 four part television serial, adapted from Michel Faber s 2002 novel The Crimson Petal and the White. Subjects Fantasy Romance Young Adult Fiction Young Adult Literature. she must submit to a series of tests to hone her ability to protect David. There’s also a refreshing flip of gender roles to Rachelle and Armand’s inevitable romance, with Rachelle as the brooding monster with blood on her hands and Armand as the innocent bent on saving her. Crimson Bound ebook &mid Cruel Beauty By Rosamund Hodge. Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge (review). Descriptive prose details the opulence of the king’s palace and his royal court (bearing a marked resemblance to eighteenth-century Versailles) as vividly as it portrays the gruesome, dark power of the Great Forest (details include a house built of bone and mortared with blood).

Hodge blends elements from “Little Red Riding Hood” and the lesser known folktale “The Girl with No Hands” to create an intoxicatingly dark story of love, lust, murder, and redemption.

Ultimately, though, her goal is to destroy the Devourer, the leader of the forestborn, but her plans are hampered when the king insists that she instead guard his heir, Armand, a man whom Rachelle believes to be a liar and a con while the rest of the court sees him as a saint. Three years later, Rachelle is still very much alive and using the supernatural abilities gifted to the bloodbound to repent for her murder of her beloved aunt as a member of the king’s elite, she stalks and kills the forestborn who terrorize the kingdom’s villages. At fifteen, Rachelle encountered a forestborn (a fey-like creature) in the Great Forest now she’s marked as a bloodbound and left with two choices: kill a human within three days or die herself. Crimson Bound book by Rosamund Hodge ReadingRewards: Earn 2x Points on all DVD & Blu-ray ISBN: 0358012414 ISBN13: 9780358012412 All These Warriors (Book 2 in the Monsters Series) by Rosamund Hodge See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 3.99 - 4.19 Paperback 5.89 - 6.

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