Yeva could wait for it to die, for the air and the blood to run out. She shoots him with an arrow, wounding him: Yeva has all of the female rage I needed, and she immediately tries to kill the Beast she believes killed her father. To her horror she stumbles across her father’s body, and the beast she believes was a fantasy.
When he goes back into the forest again to search for the beast and never returns, Yeva sets out to find him.
Her father goes deeper into the forest after big game and returns half-mad, raving about a beast. Her father is forced to sell their house and move everyone to a cottage in the forest where he and Yeva hunt for their survival. When her father bets everything on a single shipment that’s stolen by vandals, Yeva is the member of her family best suited to survive their ruin. She expects a local boy, the Baron’s heir, will propose to her as she is a great beauty, but she has no desire for marriage. It’s in the woods that Yeva feels most at home.Īs a young woman Yeva lives in town with her father and two sisters, and she acts as a lady in waiting to the Baronessa–a role that stifles her. Yeva’s father was a renown hunter before becoming a successful merchant, and he took Yeva with him to the forest and taught her survival skills and archery. In Hunted, she’s the strongest, the most feral. Unlike in many of versions of the fairytale, Beauty (in this case Yeva) isn’t the kindest, gentlest, “good”-est daughter of a wealthy merchant.
It’s the BatB adaptation that I didn’t know that I wanted or needed, but that kept me up reading all night. I just heard a bunch of people one-click buy, didn’t I? Hunted is a YA adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale mixed with Russian folklore and featuring an archer heroine. Genre: Science Fiction/Fantasy, Young Adult
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