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A review by goodeyreads
Beauty Reborn by Elizabeth Lowham
fast-paced
2.0
Thank you to the publisher for an ARC.
NOPE.
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I want to be able to come here and tell y’all I enjoyed this, but I just flat out did not.
This wasn’t a retelling so much as a direct copycat of the original movie. I don’t feel like I got anything new out of this story and instead wished I was just watching the movie.
At barely 200 pages there isn’t enough context or story to get the full sense of Beauty, her family, or her relationship with Beast. Beauty and Beast play make believe games while in the castle and hardly talk to one another for most of the book.
There’s some small good moments about finding light in the dark and such. That’s about all I can pull out that I liked.
No world building (once again I feel like it was leaning on the hope that I had seen the movie), random flashbacks to two different time points that didn’t flow, and multiple other things.
I unfortunately cannot recommend this one.
Overall audience notes:
- Fantasy Retelling
- Language: none
- Romance: kisses
- Trigger/Content Warnings: mentions of sexual assault and potential rape (on page, but extremely vague)
NOPE.
BLOG || INSTAGRAM
I want to be able to come here and tell y’all I enjoyed this, but I just flat out did not.
This wasn’t a retelling so much as a direct copycat of the original movie. I don’t feel like I got anything new out of this story and instead wished I was just watching the movie.
At barely 200 pages there isn’t enough context or story to get the full sense of Beauty, her family, or her relationship with Beast. Beauty and Beast play make believe games while in the castle and hardly talk to one another for most of the book.
There’s some small good moments about finding light in the dark and such. That’s about all I can pull out that I liked.
No world building (once again I feel like it was leaning on the hope that I had seen the movie), random flashbacks to two different time points that didn’t flow, and multiple other things.
I unfortunately cannot recommend this one.
Overall audience notes:
- Fantasy Retelling
- Language: none
- Romance: kisses
- Trigger/Content Warnings: mentions of sexual assault and potential rape (on page, but extremely vague)