Review: Beauty and the Wolf.... eh.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 31, 2013
The story itself was interesting - based on a fairy tale, but the characters were somewhat flat.  I just couldn't push myself to care what happened to them.  Isabella, story heroine, lives in fear - I never saw her strengths.  They were there, but so hidden in all of the examples of her fears, they never had a chance to shine through.  And although Draven, Isabella"s husband and cursed wolf, would occasionally praise her beauty and ability to love, spent more time scaring her and pushing her away, to allow the reader time to see what he did in her.  Was Isabella's fear so great, she lost all ability to reason things out, even with obvious clues?  At times, I found myself saying "oh come on" and putting the book down in frustration.  As a lover of fairy tales, where the tales give us lessons, and of all stories paranormal that gives us chills or warms our hearts, I felt this story missed the mark.