I'll admit that I had a somewhat negative understanding about this book to begin with. A world that is about beauty being the dilemma of the dystopia. But Dhonielle really wrote a book with more teeth than it being just about beauty. In fact, I was pretty impressed with the whole scenario. A group of girls are able to mold people into beauties, kind of like molding clay. But the problem arises when the princess, who is about to be queen, becomes mean. Worse than mean, more like diabolical and no one can go against what she wants. People have even died from her little games. So Camelia, a Belle, decides to go against the princess, and it gets ugly. And in the background there are secret Belles which is still a mystery which should be solved in book 2, I believe. It's a good hanging thread that isn't essential to the first story, but definitely needs to be addressed soon. Brilliant!
3/5 stars
I'll admit that I had a somewhat negative understanding about this book to begin with. A world that is about beauty being the dilemma of the dystopia. But Dhonielle really wrote a book with more teeth than it being just about beauty. In fact, I was pretty impressed with the whole scenario. A group of girls are able to mold people into beauties, kind of like molding clay. But the problem arises when the princess, who is about to be queen, becomes mean. Worse than mean, more like diabolical and no one can go against what she wants. People have even died from her little games. So Camelia, a Belle, decides to go against the princess, and it gets ugly. And in the background there are secret Belles which is still a mystery which should be solved in book 2, I believe. It's a good hanging thread that isn't essential to the first story, but definitely needs to be addressed soon. Brilliant!
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