Review: Heroine is TSTL
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 15, 2012
What a load of silliness - and not the good kind. It was like an unfortunate version of Disney's Beauty and the Beast. There was even a Mrs. Potts and a Mr. Cogsworth and a Beast who's cape swirls menacingly in the shadows.The premise is that the Beast was once so conceited that he felt he could demean and mistreat those he considered unattractive. Then he has an "accident" in which he becomes disfigured. The heroine is an average looking woman who must endure pain from an old injury (which we read about more frequently than necessary).The heroine can't sleep and sees a light flickering in the castle that everyone has said is abandoned. Well, she must investigate - in the middle of the night. Once inside the castle begins to call "Hello" to what she believes may be theives, murderers or other miscreants. This is so absurd that I struggled to keep reading. For a woman supposedly about 25, she behaves as if there aren't 2 brain cells in her head.The Beast was all over the place. So vain. He was mean for seemingly no reason. After having forced herself into his castle 3 or 4 times to visit him, she doesn't show up again. He misses her and sends Mrs. Potts to investigate.  Learning she is bed-bound due to her back, he waits until the middle of the night to climb the vines into her bedroom with a bouquet of flowers. The conversation between the two at this point was just so annoyingly vapid I couldn't keep reading. It was .99 cents not well spent.