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A review by stp_reads
Rebel Rose by Emma Theriault
3.0
Rebel Rose caught my attention by the cool cover and then the description of the story. Even though I knew it was based of Beaty and the Beast, I didn’t have many expectations so I was going open minded.
So putting aside, what we know of Belle from the movies, this Belle (for a lot of the story) is self questioning, very petulant about her new role as the wife of a prince aka a princess, and hard headed about putting herself in danger because she wants to be a commoner. That drove me nuts!!!! I think there was a better way to portray Belle in where she’s questioning her new role, not her values/opinions, but using the power that it comes with to help the commoners as she desperately wanted to.
While I understand that Lio (aka Beast, no real name ever given by Disney lol) and Belle are now navigating new territory after breaking the curse, I can’t see them going through all that and having Lio disregard Belle’s opinions/needs. The many many manny times when Belle wanted to have important talks with Lio and she just let him plow through her needs/wants put her in a very submissive role which bothered me because I can’t ever see Belle letting him treat her that way. Thankfully, way later in the story, with the support and reinforcement of Mrs. Potts Belle was able to get her act together and be the empowered young woman she is.
I’ll be honest for majority of the book I was so frustrated and annoyed by Belle and Lio but towards the end of the things did pick up. It was nice seeing old beloved characters and one not so beloved. And the new characters might not be loved now but could be as the series progresses.
Focusing on the last part of the book and how things ended, I would say it’s a really good book. Overall, I’d say it was decent with great potential.
So putting aside, what we know of Belle from the movies, this Belle (for a lot of the story) is self questioning, very petulant about her new role as the wife of a prince aka a princess, and hard headed about putting herself in danger because she wants to be a commoner. That drove me nuts!!!! I think there was a better way to portray Belle in where she’s questioning her new role, not her values/opinions, but using the power that it comes with to help the commoners as she desperately wanted to.
While I understand that Lio (aka Beast, no real name ever given by Disney lol) and Belle are now navigating new territory after breaking the curse, I can’t see them going through all that and having Lio disregard Belle’s opinions/needs. The many many manny times when Belle wanted to have important talks with Lio and she just let him plow through her needs/wants put her in a very submissive role which bothered me because I can’t ever see Belle letting him treat her that way. Thankfully, way later in the story, with the support and reinforcement of Mrs. Potts Belle was able to get her act together and be the empowered young woman she is.
I’ll be honest for majority of the book I was so frustrated and annoyed by Belle and Lio but towards the end of the things did pick up. It was nice seeing old beloved characters and one not so beloved. And the new characters might not be loved now but could be as the series progresses.
Focusing on the last part of the book and how things ended, I would say it’s a really good book. Overall, I’d say it was decent with great potential.