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A review by jessaca_with_an_a
Beauty by Kerascoët, Hubert Boulard
3.0
Age-old story of a woman who was not beautiful, wishing for beauty, and finding that once she has it, her problems are tenfold.
For me, this story was just okay. It kept me interested but there wasn't any spark that would make me put it on my favorite's list.
What I enjoyed: the colorful artwork, that the story spanned years upon years to show the cascading impact her one wish had, that for the most part her beauty didn't turn her into a bad person, that Otto and Claudine ended up together, that her daughter Marine reigned after Beauty, and that Beauty's story had a somewhat happy ending.
What I enjoyed less: that there was no explanation why the spell only impacted heterosexual men and made them crazed with lust but women and gay men still saw her as beautiful, the ending was a little vague, and that, again, it was a retelling of a story told a hundred times already, with no new flare to it (other than the fact that it continued to follow Beauty throughout her entire life-its one redeeming quality in this regard).
Overall, glad I read it: yes. Glad I bought it: not overjoyed but oh well.
For me, this story was just okay. It kept me interested but there wasn't any spark that would make me put it on my favorite's list.
What I enjoyed: the colorful artwork, that the story spanned years upon years to show the cascading impact her one wish had, that for the most part her beauty didn't turn her into a bad person, that Otto and Claudine ended up together, that her daughter Marine reigned after Beauty, and that Beauty's story had a somewhat happy ending.
What I enjoyed less: that there was no explanation why the spell only impacted heterosexual men and made them crazed with lust but women and gay men still saw her as beautiful, the ending was a little vague, and that, again, it was a retelling of a story told a hundred times already, with no new flare to it (other than the fact that it continued to follow Beauty throughout her entire life-its one redeeming quality in this regard).
Overall, glad I read it: yes. Glad I bought it: not overjoyed but oh well.