Review: Flawed characters, Beautiful Story - Beauty and the Beast: Demon Tales by Kerrianne Coombes
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 19, 2013
When I started reading Beauty and the Beast: Demon Tales, I honestly didn't know what to expect.  I didn't know how Ms Coombes would develop a new take on a romantic fairy tale.  But the more I read, the more I was drawn into the story of Cally and Brigg.  The more I realized that although the framework of Beauty and the Beast was there all the way to how Brigg finally shed his beastly form, the new take was the introduction of the evil queen, Brigg's brother, Torc, and Sam, and a young woman who Ms Coombes uses to foreshadow the next book in the Demon Tales series.Ms Coombes has also brought home one point.  We sometimes tend to look at a person's physical attributes and think that the beauty reflected outside is beauty within. And while this may be true, those who may be physically flawed oftentimes have the most beauty and strength. Take Brigg and Cally for example.  Brigg wants the curse removed so that he and Torc can look human.  He perceives himself to be ugly, until Cally comes along and turns his world upside down.  Cally on the other hand, looks human.  But only because she is made to hide her true self.  Cally sees in Brigg the man she belongs to despite him looking like a beast.  Brigg is drawn to Cally and it is her love that finally allows him to accept who he really is.I'm reading another of Ms Coombe's novels: Cinderella: Demon Tale. And like Beauty and the Beast, I am drawn into the world Ms Coombes has created.