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antoniawg's review
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
marthamayfair's review against another edition
4.0
Today I bring you another retelling of one of the most popular Disney tales, Beauty and the Beast. If I'm honest, I chose the book because of its beautiful cover and when I saw that in this case it was a Beauty that you can't mess around with, I could not resist.
In this case, Beauty (although her real name is Yeva) prefers to go out hunting with her father to stay with her sisters or the other ladies, that sort of conventionality does not go with her. This fact reminded me of Feyre from A cut of thorns and roses, and I could not help but smile. Beauty's determination to end the Beast, the object of her father's obsession, is admirable. As for the Beast, his struggle with itself and the torment that follows it are incredible. In addition, the book is narrated in the first person, which makes his chapters, in my opinion, very original because they are made from the very point of view of an animal.
If we focus on the story itself, it's fine, but towards the end it hits a slump. It kept me hooked throughout the book, but i cpuldn't get enough of the last chapters since it seems to end abruptly and there are some things halfway.
Anyway, it is a book that I recommend above all if you are lovers of retellings and strong female characters. And because the story is very well told.
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Hoy os traigo otro retelling de uno de los cuentos de disney más populares, La Bella y la Bestia. Si os soy sincera, escogí el libro por su preciosa portada y cuando vi que en este caso era una Bella de armas tomar, no me pude resistir.
En este caso, Bella (aunque su nombre real es Yeva) prefiere salir con su padre de caza a quedarse con sus hermanas o las otras damas, no le van esa clase de convencialismos. Este hecho me recordó a Feyre de Una corte de rosas y espinas, y no pude evitar sonreir. La determinación de Bella por acabar con la Bestia, el objeto de obsesión de su padre, es admirable. En cuanto a la Bestia, su lucha consigo mismo y el tormento que lo sigue son increíbles. Además, el libro está narrado en primera persona, cosa que hace que sus capítulos, en mi opinión, sean muy originales ya que están hechos desde el mismisimo punto de vista de un animal.
Si nos centramos en la historia en si, está muy bien, pero hacia el final pega un bajón. Me mantuvo enganchada durante todo el libro, pero los últimos capítulos me supieron a poco ya que parece que acabe de forma muy abrupta y queden algunas cosas a medias.
De todas formas, es un libro que recomiendo sobretodo si soys amantes de los retellings y de los personajes femeninos fuertes. Y porque la historia está muy bien narrada.
In this case, Beauty (although her real name is Yeva) prefers to go out hunting with her father to stay with her sisters or the other ladies, that sort of conventionality does not go with her. This fact reminded me of Feyre from A cut of thorns and roses, and I could not help but smile. Beauty's determination to end the Beast, the object of her father's obsession, is admirable. As for the Beast, his struggle with itself and the torment that follows it are incredible. In addition, the book is narrated in the first person, which makes his chapters, in my opinion, very original because they are made from the very point of view of an animal.
If we focus on the story itself, it's fine, but towards the end it hits a slump. It kept me hooked throughout the book, but i cpuldn't get enough of the last chapters since it seems to end abruptly and there are some things halfway.
Anyway, it is a book that I recommend above all if you are lovers of retellings and strong female characters. And because the story is very well told.
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Hoy os traigo otro retelling de uno de los cuentos de disney más populares, La Bella y la Bestia. Si os soy sincera, escogí el libro por su preciosa portada y cuando vi que en este caso era una Bella de armas tomar, no me pude resistir.
En este caso, Bella (aunque su nombre real es Yeva) prefiere salir con su padre de caza a quedarse con sus hermanas o las otras damas, no le van esa clase de convencialismos. Este hecho me recordó a Feyre de Una corte de rosas y espinas, y no pude evitar sonreir. La determinación de Bella por acabar con la Bestia, el objeto de obsesión de su padre, es admirable. En cuanto a la Bestia, su lucha consigo mismo y el tormento que lo sigue son increíbles. Además, el libro está narrado en primera persona, cosa que hace que sus capítulos, en mi opinión, sean muy originales ya que están hechos desde el mismisimo punto de vista de un animal.
Si nos centramos en la historia en si, está muy bien, pero hacia el final pega un bajón. Me mantuvo enganchada durante todo el libro, pero los últimos capítulos me supieron a poco ya que parece que acabe de forma muy abrupta y queden algunas cosas a medias.
De todas formas, es un libro que recomiendo sobretodo si soys amantes de los retellings y de los personajes femeninos fuertes. Y porque la historia está muy bien narrada.
ajoanaverde's review against another edition
4.0
Amazing retelling of The Beauty and the Beast, but I still don't know how I feel about the Stockholm syndrome and all. I love that it is mentioned but she still goes back to him. I don't know, I'd rather see a version where they don't end up together.
coryxiareads's review against another edition
5.0
this book was enchanting and beautifully written, with a real grit and human touch to the beauty and beast them. I loved the hunting aspects as well, a nice twist, as I love archery and practiced it when I was younger, my dad teaching me as well. I loved this book for the magical element and the romance that grew between the two.
emleemay's review against another edition
4.0
“She wept because she did not know what she wanted, and because she wanted everything.”
4 1/2 stars. Wow, this was... unexpected. I got an arc of [b:Hunted|24485589|Hunted|Meagan Spooner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1467052649s/24485589.jpg|44080112] from edelweiss months ago. After putting it off again and again for other books, I decided to let it expire. Seriously, who even needs another Beauty & the Beast retelling? Then this book was given to me as a gift and *resigned sigh* I decided to just give it a shot. And I'm so glad I did.
[b:Cruel Beauty|15839984|Cruel Beauty (Cruel Beauty Universe, #1)|Rosamund Hodge|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1371652590s/15839984.jpg|21580669] is still my favourite Beauty & the Beast retelling, but this comes in at a close second. It obviously follows the familiar B&tB format, whilst doing something completely new and fresh with it. I loved what it did. I love the new themes the author explores in this old template.
It's a haunting, well-written story. Full of icy coldness, the language of fairy tales, and underneath, a running theme of that inexplicable longing for something you can't quite put your finger on. Maybe it's like wanderlust - that restlessness and dissatisfaction with staying in one place for too long. Maybe it's just wanting without knowing what you want. It's powerful, though, and Spooner captures that feeling so wonderfully here.
Surprisingly, it's very... not romantic. There is no time given over to lusty encounters and stolen kisses with a somehow sexy beast. Rather, the relationship between Beauty and this Beast is one between two outsiders who see something they recognize in one another. Yeva (aka "Beauty") is a trained hunter and she remains dedicated to her passion and her family throughout.
The setting is inspired by rural medieval Russia. Lots of coldness, snow and ice, and it fits with the tale very well. Yeva and her father navigate this white-covered wilderness in their hunting, but then Yeva's father starts rambling about a beast unlike any other. A beast that is smart and cunning. A beast that is following him.
The snow is a canvas, her father would say, upon which the beast paints his past, his home, his intentions, his future. Learn to see the picture and you will know him as you know yourself.
When he doesn't return from a hunting trip, Yeva leaves her beloved sisters to go track him. Of course, she finds way more than she bargained for. Not just a beast, but a whole world of fantastical creatures that seem to play by a different set of rules. But Yeva knows these rules; they're the rules of the fairy tales her father always read to her. The rule of threes. The rule of curses. The rule of breaking them.
Yeva is determined to kill the beast and return to her family. But her quest to kill the seemingly unkillable creature unveils ever more secrets, and the longer she spends in this world, the more she worries what world she will find when she leaves.
Despite having read so many retellings these past few years, [b:Hunted|24485589|Hunted|Meagan Spooner|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1467052649s/24485589.jpg|44080112] found a special place in my heart. It was thoughtful, moving and - for me - unputdownable.
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martareader's review against another edition
4.0
So this book was really good. I feel like there is something magical about the writing of this book that attaches you to the story and makes you fall in love with it
This is a beauty and the beast retelling about a girl named Yeva whose father is a hunter and after his sudden death she decides to kill the creature that murdered him.
The story is really captivating and the writing is BEAUTIFUL. It has pretty long descriptions but THEY ARE NOT BORING AT ALL, they set you in the book's atmosphere (which i really appreciated) and make you fall in love with the characters and the world.
It would have been a 5/5 stars book for me if it wasn't for the ending. I feel like the author tried to close everything in like the last 30 pages and everthing happend really fast and it could have definetly been done better.
This is a beauty and the beast retelling about a girl named Yeva whose father is a hunter and after his sudden death she decides to kill the creature that murdered him.
The story is really captivating and the writing is BEAUTIFUL. It has pretty long descriptions but THEY ARE NOT BORING AT ALL, they set you in the book's atmosphere (which i really appreciated) and make you fall in love with the characters and the world.
It would have been a 5/5 stars book for me if it wasn't for the ending. I feel like the author tried to close everything in like the last 30 pages and everthing happend really fast and it could have definetly been done better.