Rachel Louise Lawrence

The Story of the Beauty and the Beast

Kirsty

** spoiler alert **
           ***SPOILERS*** This book was so far from what I expected going into it, but I loved it?? Beauty and the Beast is my favourite Disney movie, so I had always meant to read the story that inspired it, but hadn't until now. The first half was somewhat slow getting into, a bit confusing at parts, but those all get explained later. It's the half way point where it really picks up and there is just twist after twist. I breezed through it at the end. I loved the Fairy world, reading about the Beast's backstory really fleshed him out too and had me feeling really bad for him?? and the story given to Beauty is one that just shocked me at every turn. The only thing I'd say was a negative was that towards the end the chapters are mostly dialogue for 20 pages each chapter. It's a lot of explaining and telling, it feels more as if the author is just rambling to the reader about the plot and cool backstory than it being fleshed out. Beauty didn't really have much chance to react to being told her own story which gave a bit of a disconnect. ALSO THEY WERE COUSINS.

The Story of the Beauty and the Beast

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