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Summary

Set in a contemporary setting inhabited by dragons, this is a gender-swapped, creature-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast, so that the Belle character is human & a dragon while Beast is human and female.

Stats

Genre: YA (16+ years) fairy tale/magical realism

Series length: Stand alone novel

Violence: High, mostly non-graphic

Magic/Supernatural: Moderate, largely pertaining to the dragon race

Romance: High romance, nothing more intimate than a kiss

Christian/spiritual element: Subtle worldview

Recommendation: Perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast who are looking for an unusual twist on the fairy tale.

You might like this book if you liked... 
Beauty and the Beast, The Descendants, or similar fairy-tale twist stories/shows

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Opening Lines:

Hunting dragons isn't the easiest job, but it is the most fun.

Isabel's words, not mine.
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But I repeated the mantra to myself as I stood, heart pounding, with my back against the still-warm, charred brick of what used to be the storefront of Zane's Country Market. All that was left of the smoldering sign read "ne's try Mar." 

A Dragon By Any Other Name
by S. D. Grimm

This time, beauty is the beast. And she wants prince charming dead.

At eighteen, Keira is a formidable dragon hunter bent on finding her parents’ killer—a forest dragon she once helped escape her mother’s laboratory. Biggest mistake of her life. Now, Keira pours her thirst for revenge into her mother’s life-long mission: figuring out what a forest dragon’s poison is . . . so she can destroy the murderers for good.

But Keira’s plan begins to unravel when she takes on a life debt to a forest dragon in order to save her brother. Trapped behind enemy lines, Keira’s assumptions about dragons are turned upside down, and she must confront the possibility that everything she knows about dragons is wrong. As she gets closer to discovering the forest dragon’s poison, she must decide if the price of this knowledge is worth the sacrifice.

In this not-quite fairy tale, what the “princess” needs most is a change of heart. But will it change in time for her to save those she’s already sentenced to death—even if the cost is her own freedom?

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