Young Adult Fiction
HarperTeen
March 14, 2017
Audiobook
384
New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won’t soon be able to forget. Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones—and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas…or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. The Beast. Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?
WrensReads Review:
Have you ever seen this movie?
Then you basically know this story and I don’t need to paraphrase it for you.
I.. was kind of bored. And the whole Stockholm Syndrome thing everyone always talks about with Beauty and the Beast really stood out to me for some reason. She didn’t fit in with her family anymore, so she went back to her capture… which, yah basically happens in the movie too so I am not sure why it stands out to me now.
Like Beauty and the Beast is my favorite Disney Princess Movie. I have done photoshoots based off of Beauty and the Beast. I relate to her being a strong woman who loves books and isn’t afraid to bite back. And Yeva did have the bite and she did have the strength and she did have passion (it wasn’t books, but that’s fine). But for some reason her capture and hostage situation really stood out to me. Did anyone else feel that way?
Anyway, back to the story itself, I wasn’t really feeling it. I felt like it was missing something, but I loved the Yeva as a character and the connection with her family and the people surrounding her family was incredibly written. I was more interested in the could-have-been dramatic triangle that formed with her family and her sister’s handicap and how they lost all their money and everything. I wish that was touched on more; but then again, that isn’t apart of the original, is it?
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