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3.52 AVERAGE
3.52 AVERAGE
A high school retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I enjoyed it... I always love a good twist on a familiar story. Not the most inventive and surprising, but fun nonetheless!
well it is a retelling of beauty and the beast in modern day..i kind of liked it ..it's fun to read from Adrian's/kyle's point of view.but i always look for the extra ordinary..and there wasn't anything so special about this one..but i enjoyed it anyway
*4.75* This book was just so Sappy and cute! i loved it!:D<3
This was a pretty decent modern fairy tale retelling. I like how the author carefully worked in the details of the original story, but I found it to move a little slow. I also didn't think that the online chat sessions that broke up the parts of the story really fit with the rest of the book. However, I liked the characters and it was a pretty good story. I had had low expectations because the movie version is pretty awful, this book was much better.
Real score 3.75. My boat wasn’t altogether floated. I didn’t ever really get to like Alex all that much. Sorry, just telling it like I experience it.
I now know why this was on a list of books to read instead of 50 Shades of Gray. I am now worried that the list contains books that are only slightly better than 50 Shades of Gray.
I didn't actually finish this book, I got more than half way and then could not suffer through another page. This adaptation does absolutely nothing for the story of Beauty and the Beast. Rather than complicating the idea of beauty and the story that 1) socialized young women to accept arranged marriages and 2) continues to teach young women that they can 'heal' abusive partners, this book fell short of any real subversiveness.
I didn't actually finish this book, I got more than half way and then could not suffer through another page. This adaptation does absolutely nothing for the story of Beauty and the Beast. Rather than complicating the idea of beauty and the story that 1) socialized young women to accept arranged marriages and 2) continues to teach young women that they can 'heal' abusive partners, this book fell short of any real subversiveness.
I wanted to like this more than I did.There were some interesting bits, and I liked it well enough to finish, but I spent most of the book thinking more about how I would review it, rather than getting lost in it.
This is going to sound a bit stupid, but I had trouble suspending disbelief on this one. (I know, of all of the SFF I read, I'm going to quibble about whether or not it's believable??). I guess that's what makes a book really good: convince me that your outrageous idea is not so outrageous, and I'm yours.
I think I was more interested in this from the standpoint that it will be kicking off my focus on retold stories, rather than the book itself. Something of a disappointing start, but I have high hopes for my next read.
And oddly, I went and looked at the trailer for the movie based on the book, and THAT actually looks like a more interesting update to the premise.
This is going to sound a bit stupid, but I had trouble suspending disbelief on this one. (I know, of all of the SFF I read, I'm going to quibble about whether or not it's believable??). I guess that's what makes a book really good: convince me that your outrageous idea is not so outrageous, and I'm yours.
I think I was more interested in this from the standpoint that it will be kicking off my focus on retold stories, rather than the book itself. Something of a disappointing start, but I have high hopes for my next read.
And oddly, I went and looked at the trailer for the movie based on the book, and THAT actually looks like a more interesting update to the premise.
Not bad, kept me going, some parts were kind of a stretch.