Review: A lovely new version of the beauty and the beast
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2012
Some month ago I discovered Cindy C. Bennet's book Heart on a chain and I simply loved it... One day I was into reading stories about the beauty and the beast and downloaded this one without even noticing who the author was until yesterday! So it started haunting me to read it and couldn't stop.What a combination! A writer I like and a tale I like. Yes, I have to admit I am a real girl loving fairy tales! Now if you add two things you like together... it can only be good.Calli is beautiful and intelligent but for others primarily: beautiful. Calli lives with her too often drunken father in a small house in the poorer part of a small town. Calli has some very good friends and lives a happy life.There is a house in town, known to be Monster House. There lives a rich and powerful man, who owns the town's bank, with his son, Alex.Alex is the monster, a beast, scared avoiding any human contact suffering from the way others look at him and the way he views himself.One night Calli's friends decide to see the monster, as a childish game, which Calli will have to pay dearly for. Or at least this is what she thinks until she gets to know Alex. But will this beauty and her beast find a way to be together? What will the real monsters they will have to fight be?First of all this is not a fantasy novel nor is it a real enchanted tale, but rather a realistic tale about a scared 18 year old boy, having problems with his scars and his past. This is a story about love, being the power curing all scars and brightening the present and the future.The writing was really nice, had rhythm and some very nice stylistic use of language and repetition. It reminded me sometimes of a real fairy tale. She also created some nice images in my head such as the mirror room. It is a short story of only 94 pages, but this gave the story energy keeping it from being too long. And then there are the characters. Calli is smart, fun, intelligent and very sweet. Alex is sensible, intelligent, simply great. But the other persons around, even if not very present are very nicely depicted and very realistic.As a conclusion I loved this story the next one:Red and the Wolf (Enchanted Fairytales)is already on my kindle ready to be read. The third one in the series isSnow White (Enchanted Fairytales)and in February 2013 there should be a new oneRapunzel Untangled.Enjoy the read MBTM