The Beautiful Ones are not what they seem
by Kody Boye
This is a running theme within The Beautiful Ones
trilogy, and a theme that I feel separates the series from more opulent
comparisons such as The Selection by Kiera Cass. In The Beautiful
Ones, our main character, Kelendra Byron, believes that, by becoming a
Beautiful One, she will escape poverty, and life as she knows it. While that is
true in one sense, in another, it is completely wrong.
Beautiful Ones, who are chosen from outlying territories
within the Great South, are chosen for only one reason: to create an
exceptionally-beautiful gene pool, which encompasses not only the most
beautiful of women, but the most intelligent of men from the capital city.
While this is detailed more extensively in book 2, The War Outside, the
first book in The Beautiful Ones trilogy describes a distrust of men by
the Countess—and, as a result, a willingness to expend them over the women she
feels can be the “future” of “her country.”
Though Kelendra Byron is not aware of her impending
circumstance before the annual Procession begins shortly after her sixteenth
birthday, she will soon come to find that things are not what they seem.
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The Beautiful Ones is now available for free in eBook format,
and for purchase in paperback and in Audible Audio. Its sequel, The War
Outside, is available on Amazon.com and Kindle Unlimited. A third book will
follow in late 2019 or early 2020.
The
Beautiful Ones
The
Beautiful Ones Trilogy Book 1
by
Kody Boye
Genre: YA Scifi Romance
Genre: YA Scifi Romance
My mother once said
that only the Beautiful Ones survive. This is because, in the
war-torn Great South, beauty is a currency, and to have it means you
will never have to worry about a thing.
The only problem
is: beauty is judged by our capital’s Gentlewomen, and there is no
guarantee that we will past their test.
Every year, the
Gentlewomen of the capital leave the Glittering City to oversee the
annual Procession. They travel settlement to settlement selecting
girls, aged sixteen and older, to become Beautiful Ones. If chosen,
we will be lifted into a life of luxury, but the cost is our free
will.
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The
War Outside
The Beautiful Ones Trilogy Book 2
The Beautiful Ones Trilogy Book 2
I
have accomplished the goal of my lifetime. I have become a Beautiful
One.
But it is not at all what I expected. Between the glitz,
the glam, the fame, fortune, and my recent wedding, it’s almost
impossible to believe that a civil war rages beyond the capitol
city’s walls, and that my life was nearly taken because of it. This
is why, the day after the attempt on my life, I choose to designate
my Purpose to the great war.
There’s no guarantee that my
words will change anything. But as my presence within the Glittering
City grows, it becomes quickly apparent that I am in danger… and
that no one, not even my government, can save me.
Born
and raised in Southeastern Idaho, Kody Boye began his writing career
with the publication of his story [A] Prom Queen’s Revenge at the
age of fourteen. Published nearly three-dozen times before going
independent at eighteen, Boye has authored numerous works—including
the short story collection Amorous Things, the novella The Diary of
Dakota Hammell, the zombie novel Sunrise and the epic fantasy series
The Brotherhood Saga.
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