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nikki_daire 's review for:
Stealing Beauty
by Jessica Collins
I found this book hard to review. It was quite well-written, but while reading I found myself swinging between loving and hating it.
This is a modern, erotic retelling of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For those who love the Disney version, you'll enjoy the references scattered throughout the book. Annabelle (Belle) was intelligent, but she lacked the strength I love about Beauty, often coming across as a damsel-in-distress.
The reasons I couldn't give this story a higher rating - the sexual assault in the beginning came across as glorified for the purpose of the erotic genre. Most of all Belle and Aleksandr's relationship was emotionally abusive and this really makes me cringe especially when portrayed as romance. I really struggled with a large part of the story because of this. Why can't we have book when the girl isn't emotionally abused for the purpose of having an 'alpha male'?
The story slipped into a better space in the end.
This is a modern, erotic retelling of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. For those who love the Disney version, you'll enjoy the references scattered throughout the book. Annabelle (Belle) was intelligent, but she lacked the strength I love about Beauty, often coming across as a damsel-in-distress.
The reasons I couldn't give this story a higher rating - the sexual assault in the beginning came across as glorified for the purpose of the erotic genre. Most of all Belle and Aleksandr's relationship was emotionally abusive and this really makes me cringe especially when portrayed as romance. I really struggled with a large part of the story because of this. Why can't we have book when the girl isn't emotionally abused for the purpose of having an 'alpha male'?
The story slipped into a better space in the end.