Wow I surprisingly loved this book. I normally don’t get into retelling of fairy tales, but this story was really well done and I am glad I got the chance to review it. From the very first pages it hooked me and I ended up reading it all in one sitting.
Kill Me Softly is about a teenage girl named Mirabelle Lively. She is about a week away from her 16th birthday. She lives with her 2 godmothers because her mother and father were killed when she was just a baby from a fire at her christening party. Her godmothers have always been good to her but she feels they have sheltered her from a lot of things out of life the most important being going back to Beau Rivage the city where she was born and her parents died at. So Mirabelle after careful planning decides to run away and go to Beau Rivage to find her parent’s graves. Upon arriving at Beau Rivage she meets a group of people who seem to be hiding secrets. In this group she meets 2 brothers Blue and Felix who couldn’t be more complete opposites. First there is Felix the sweet and caring older brother who seems to want to help her out and then there is Blue who is rude and mean and wants her to leave Beau Rivage. As she continues her search for her parents she realizes things are not quite what they seem in this city and she may be a part of something bigger than even she could have imagined. The boy she falls in love with kiss could turn deadly.
This story had some really great moments and I loved the spin on the fairy tales it gives. Although there was some points in the story where I wanted to grab Mirabelle and shake her and tell her to stop being so naïve. That was just me though because in a lot of instances she was that naïve because her godmothers had sheltered and protected her from so much. I really enjoyed the world Sarah Cross created in this story and I hope I get to visit it again. My only real complaint was it seemed like the ending was really rushed and could have been done just a bit better. It was almost like the author said oh no I am on page 300 I need to wrap this up and shoved all kinds of things at us in a short amount of time.
Overall I will definitely be reading this again when it finally comes out. I hope she writes more stories in the world she created because there was characters I would definitely like to see if they get there happily ever after or not. Thank you to Egmont USA and Netgalley for allowing me to read and review this wonderful story.
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