sunshine_librarian 's review for:

Bookish and the Beast by Ashley Poston
4.0

I can never resist a twisted fairy tale, so I jumped on Ashley Poston's Bookish and the Beast. I love how Poston brings us back to Excelsicon and the tv show Star Field, but with different characters. Yet she still gives us glimpses of characters from past books.

This book centers around Rosie Thorne, a high school senior applying to colleges who recently lost her mother. She and her dad are down on their luck and struggling to make ends meet. The one bright spot in her life was meeting a General Sond cosplayer at Excelsicon, but she never got his name.

The complete polar opposite is Hollywood bad boy Vance Reigns who plays a villain in the Star Field movies. After one too many stories in the press, Vance's father banishes him far away from LA.

Through a series of bizarre events stemming from a chance meeting, Rosie and Vance find themselves working on a project together to catalog a private collection of science fiction. They learn more about each other and struggle to fight off a growing attraction.

I definitely enjoyed this read.