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Fran  Laniado

Beautiful

Teens

Eimear is Faerie. She left the land of her birth, to find a place where she felt like she could belong. She finds herself in the World, a strange place, where she is the only magical being, and she begins to build a life for herself. But when she encounters Finn, supernaturally beautiful but thoughtless and selfish, she gets angry. In a fit of rage, she casts a spell on Finn. It’s a spell that she can’t undo, even when she discovers that she’s ruined Finn’s life. Finn is wealthy, arrogant, and cruel. He didn’t think twice about insulting Eimear, until it was too late. Now, exiled from the only home he’s ever known, he is forced to make his own way, for the first time ever. He does have support- if he wants it. Eimear, wants to assuage her guilt by helping him. In an isolated place, thrown together initially out of desperation and need, Eimear and Finn find a way to live together. That alliance eventually blossoms into friendship, and even love. But before they can have their happily ever after, Eimear must go on a perilous journey that will force her to confront everything that she ran away from when she left Faerie.

Book Bubbles from Beautiful

Arrival in The World

I wanted Eimear's arrival in the World to be more difficult than expected. Most of her knowledge of the World is from stories told to children (sort of like how we tell watered down versions of fairy tales to children) and I wanted her arrival to be a way of letting her (and the reader) know that this wouldn't be one of those nice, easy, happy stories. It was a way of indicating that she would face unexpected challenges in her new life, and have to find a way through them.

Opening

I wanted the reader the be a bit taken aback by Eimear in the opening of the book, because I think she has a candor that frequently takes other characters aback. I wanted the readers to have a similar experience with her at first. I decided I'd do that by discussing the way that stories often depict the birth of magical creatures, and contrasting it with the gory details of human birth. In addition to introducing the reader to Eimear's characteristic bluntness, it also introduced the reader to the magical beings in the book, which aren't always so "pretty".

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