Review: This book goes beyond weird
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2013
I like Tara Brown.  She is a great author with an incredible imagination.  However, I have a serious problem with this book as it almost reads like two books slapped together.The first half of the book is great.  After reading the author's disclaimer that this is a weird book, I was along for the ride.  Based on a twisted version of Beauty and the Beast, it starts jangled.  This combined with the disjointed narrative and insane plot made was different and interesting.The second half of the book seemed like it was written as an addition and not by the same person who wrote the first half.  In the back end of the book the author threw in every fairy tale cliches possible.  You know it is bad when you are laughing during the dramatic scenes!  There are so many twists and turns that I think she loses track of where the story is going.  Most of it seems to be filler so she could make a two book series instead of a very interesting novella.  I would have paid $1.01 for a good novella..What a shame.  I wouldn't recommend this book.  I sure will not be buying the sequel.