I read this incredible Beauty and the Beast retelling a couple days ago and just posted my review on goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1135744628
and you can watch me awkwardly stutter and ramble on about the book on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RFUjyDG5d0
General Plot:
When Beauty Tamed the Beast is basically a beautifully written adult-version of the classic fairy tale it's based on. Linnet, our beautiful heroine, is a stubborn, fiercely strong-willed woman caught in the middle of a scandal after being romantically involved with a prince known for his use-them-then-leave-them ways. Her family, desperate to resolve the issue, sends her off to marry a doctor infamously known as "the beast" due to his horrid temper which is the result of an accident that left him crippled for life.
When the two meet, sparks fly and there's no denying the obvious attraction between them. A huge plot twist shoves it way in the book and in between our two love-struck characters, but it isn't nearly frustrating as it is beautiful to read.
Thoughts:
This book was ah-may-zing! Honestly, I usually pay no mind to Beauty and the Beast retellings but this one caught my eye after being shelved with a favorite book of mine. I was quite impressed with the author's ability to write a retelling that didn't involve beastly figures or scifi aliens, and I love how she twisted the story around and SPOILER turned Linnet into the disfigured beast in place of the usual male character. I loved the author's writing style, which is highly reminiscent of Jane Austen's books, and this has surprisingly become one of my favorite comedies of all time.
Spoiling the Book for You
In my book vlog I go on and on about the plot, so if you'd like to know more and hear a slightly more detailed version, you can go ahead an click that.
The "plot twist" I was talking about is the part where Linnets contracts Scarlet Fever and becomes horribly disfigured. Thankfully, the doctor (Piers) knows his trade well, cures her, and she returns to her normal gorgeous self and they run off into the sunset and make gorgeous babies together, the end.
I may talk about it, or rather write about it like it's nothing, but the scene where Piers mourns over the ill Linnet is incredibly moving and might be one of my very book moments of all time. His devastation and his obvious feelings for her were just overwhelming.
Oh and Piers forgives his dad for causing his accident and the latter and Piers' mom reconcile and their moment is very touching and quite beautiful to read as well.
If you read the spoilers, I hope you won't be put off reading When Beauty Tamed the Beast. I swear to you, you are missing out on oh so much if you do not pick that book up and give it an hour, and honey, I swear an hour is all you'll need because you just will not be able to put that book down.
So enjoy a warm cup of tea, snuggle into couch and wrap yourself in a cozy blankie and enjoy that book for crying out loud. It's insanely beautiful.
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