Review: Pretty Good Story, GREAT Handling of Race
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2012
"Mistress to the Beast" is a take on "Beauty and the Beast..." the plot has been summarized in other reviews, but I didn't read them, so I missed that connection before reading the book.The story was good- the book was a little shorter than I like, but it has a story and I believed most of the plot. Hunter's turn-around was a bit abrupt, and Lila's feelings could have been narrated more in-depth, but it was good. What the book did EXCELLENTLY, was treat race as a characteristic that didn't require comment. As a woman in an interracial marriage, it is so refreshing to see a Black female called "beautiful-" not "beautiful for a Black woman." Neither character gave much attention to race, and their hang-ups were human, without the racial drama. I will definitely be reading more by this author!