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A review by kbeddes
Beauty by Susan Wilson
3.0
Genre: Beauty and the Beast, artistic life,
Summary: Alix is a painter. She comes from a family of painters who always paint the Cromptons. When she receives a commission to paint the reclusive last of the Crompton line, she is intrigued. She goes up to his secluded house in the country and meets Leland who has been grossly distorted by a genetic disease. Leland is kind, generous, possibly the best man that Alix has ever met. When she falls in love with him, he doesn't believe her.
Response: I am always up for a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I was intrigued by the realistic setting of this story. It's a fairy-tale in the sense that there is a Beauty and there is a Beast, but it has a little different "happily ever after" than what I was expecting. The writing was fairly beautiful, however. I wasn't my favorite retelling by any means, but it wasn't bad.
Summary: Alix is a painter. She comes from a family of painters who always paint the Cromptons. When she receives a commission to paint the reclusive last of the Crompton line, she is intrigued. She goes up to his secluded house in the country and meets Leland who has been grossly distorted by a genetic disease. Leland is kind, generous, possibly the best man that Alix has ever met. When she falls in love with him, he doesn't believe her.
Response: I am always up for a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I was intrigued by the realistic setting of this story. It's a fairy-tale in the sense that there is a Beauty and there is a Beast, but it has a little different "happily ever after" than what I was expecting. The writing was fairly beautiful, however. I wasn't my favorite retelling by any means, but it wasn't bad.