Review: Become your own desires
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 20, 2012
Mrs. Beast had me a bit confused at the beginning. I read the first few pages and thought I might might want to put it away, until I realized I was reading satire and a self-help book all-in-one.The book follows Beauty on her quest to turn her human, but sadly lacking husband back into the Beast who had won her heart before her marriage. Along the way, she meets other women who featured prominently in the Grimm Fairy Tales and listens to their tales of what happened Happily Ever After. Just like Anita Baker sang more than 20 years ago, fairy tales don't come true.Like many a woman who married because it was expected of her, or it was her duty, or she thought she could "change" him, these ladies share their stories of what went wrong, and finally, about what has made them happy.Along the way Beauty learns and grows, and like every good fairy tale, there is a moral to the story: instead of trying to change everyone around her and her circumstances to become what she wants, Beauty does the only possible thing she can do to make herself happy: she becomes what she needs instead of relying on somebody else to do it for her. It was a glorious end, and finally does credence to the line "fairy tales can come true".