Review: "Beauty and the Beast"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2010
When I first started reading this romance, the guy in it seemed too superficial and uncaring to be interesting or likable. I guess that was part of his beast persona, because as I read further and learned more about him, he just seemed human and vulnerable.  I thought the author did a pretty good job of writing a modern Beauty and the Beast story.  It was nice too that the Beauty character in the story was a black woman with the beast being blonde, which makes a nice change from the cliche' ofblack men being with white blonde women.Of course Lila who was 'Beauty' was as beautiful inside as outside.  In the original fairy tale, the beast has a bad temper  as part of his curse, so having the 'beast' in this story be bad tempered goes along with that.