Review: 2 Beauties and a Beast
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 26, 2012
OK, so this is a twist on the usual Beauty and the Beast theme: There is Jolene, the traditional Beauty, and Silas, who though he is physically disfigured, is a beautiful person and doesn't need to be redeemed from any bad personality traits. He is also a Beauty and definitely not a Beast. No the real Beast of the story is Carlos, Jolene's husband. He is bad. He is very, very bad. And he is dangerous.I really enjoyed this novella. The love story was sweet and believable (it took place over the course of a winter and part of the spring), there was no BIG MISUNDERSTANDING whatsoever (unless you want to go into the story before the book where Jolene thought her husband-to-be was a nice guy).And the end....AhhhhThis is not a spoiler, unless you have been living in a yurt in Outer Mongolia for the past 40 years:The villain gets what's coming to him. He gets it good. I haven't relished payback this much since Dorothy threw the pail of water all over the Wicked Witch of the West (God, I hope I don't need therapy because I enjoyed this scene so much. It was just so...appropriate).