Waiting on Wednesday: Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jany

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine in which we have the opportunity to let others know about books that we are eagerly waiting for.

Title: Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay 

Published by: Delacorte Books for Young ReadersRelease date: July 23rd, 2013

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...
In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.
Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.
As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.

Why I want to read it: I love fairy tale re-tellings and I The Beauty and the Beast is my absolute favorite (It's why I loved Beastly).  This one sounds really interesting, more like a fantasy really.  Oh, and the cover is breathtaking, right?

What are you waiting for this week?