Waiting On Wednesday(4)

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Title: Crazy Beautiful
Author: Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date: September 07, 2009
ISBN-13: 9780547223070
Age Range: Young Adult
208pp

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.

Crazy Beautiful is a contemporary re-visioning of Beauty & the Beast, told in he-said/she-said fashion, about a boy with hooks for hands and a gorgeous girl who meet on their first day at a new school. I love Beauty and the Beast stories. After i read Beastly by Alex Flinn, i wanted to read more of Beauty & The Beast Remakes..so i can't wait until this one comes out. It seems interesting and unique, i mean come the guy has hook for hands.