Review: ABSOLUTELY HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2013
There are so many reasons I hated this Beauty & the Beast Theme story, let me count the ways.1) His face is severely scarred, but he is still a fine looking man.2) Throughout the story the heroine is scarred twice, a turn-off for me.3) The heroine is almost instantly attracted to the hero.  Even though at the beginning he is not only disfigured, but he is a smelly drunk who lives in filthty quarters, and does not bathe.4) By the time we are (48% Kindle talk)into the story: the heroine is totally in love with the hero, and spent the rest of the book agonizing over the fact that he does not love her.  She is needy and desperate, turns herself inside-out for him.  She goes as far as offering her innocence to him (though they are not yet married) because there is nothing she won't do for him.  And he gladly takes her up on the offer, though he is yet to realize his love for her.  MY GOODNESS, in a beauty and the beast theme, is supposed to be the other way around, that is the whole point of such a story!5) It felt to me (for most of the book) that the hero's obvious interest in the heroine, was more due to the fact that a beautiful, young woman desired him (despite his desfigurement), rather than any real regard for her. Plus he does not realize his love for her until toward the end of the book.  Hated that too!And finally:SPOILER ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!This spoiler alert deals with something that happens toward the end of the book.  Do not read, if you don't want to know specifics about the LAST PART OF THIS STORY.  To me, the subject matter was repulsive, and I wished I had known before I purchased, but especially before I read this book.  Again below is a SPOILER ALERT ! ! ! ! ! !6) Toward the end of the book, both hero and heroine believe the other is dead, and both are devastated, and consider the possibility of joining the other in death.  But the hero does not go through wth his plans, because he has responsibilities.  But the heroine does (of course she does not die) even though she has responsibilities too, including two young siblings that she loves, and is presently raising.  But does that stops her?  Absolutely not.  She blissfully and purposely walks into a raging fire to join her beloved.  I was intensely bothered at a very fundemental level: that at the end of the day (regardless of responsibilities, or other considerations) he was not willing to end it all for her, but she was for him.  YIKES!!!!!!!