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A review by writtenechoes
Blaine's Beast by Joel Abernathy, G.A. Rael
3.0
This was okay. A gay retelling of beauty and the best but also make it werewolves. For such a short book, this took me forever to read. Mostly because it never really captured my attention.
Blaine, kicked out of the house for being gay, stumbles into the woods and is saved by a witch. He’s taken to a castle in the woods where a pack of werewolves lives. Initially shocked Blaine quickly comes around. What really threw me was Blaine hooking up with Rohan literally days within waking up from a coma??? And he lost his virginity too??? But moments before he said his ex broke up with him because he wouldn’t have sex. And he wanted sex to be special? After that, it was just hard for me to follow. I did like moments of this story. I liked when Blaine was falling in love with Beast and wish there had been more of that but unfortunately that was only 10% of the novel. Beast is turned back into his human form by the 50% mark. The rest of the novel just feels like a bunch of points where it could’ve ended but the author just kept pushing on.
The writing was GOOD and the book was a GOOD time it just felt like … something was missing? And again it was too long. Also the sex scenes were not fade to black but were written very vaguely. Which made them decidedly unromantic to me.
3 stars for Mattie though. He’s the best part of the entire story.
I received an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review.
Blaine, kicked out of the house for being gay, stumbles into the woods and is saved by a witch. He’s taken to a castle in the woods where a pack of werewolves lives. Initially shocked Blaine quickly comes around. What really threw me was Blaine hooking up with Rohan literally days within waking up from a coma??? And he lost his virginity too??? But moments before he said his ex broke up with him because he wouldn’t have sex. And he wanted sex to be special? After that, it was just hard for me to follow. I did like moments of this story. I liked when Blaine was falling in love with Beast and wish there had been more of that but unfortunately that was only 10% of the novel. Beast is turned back into his human form by the 50% mark. The rest of the novel just feels like a bunch of points where it could’ve ended but the author just kept pushing on.
The writing was GOOD and the book was a GOOD time it just felt like … something was missing? And again it was too long. Also the sex scenes were not fade to black but were written very vaguely. Which made them decidedly unromantic to me.
3 stars for Mattie though. He’s the best part of the entire story.
I received an arc in exchange for a fair and honest review.