Review: A grown-up Beauty and the Beast!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2013
In this gothic retelling of the classic Beauty and the Beast, Isabella Farrington finds herself hastily wed to Lord Drayven Winthrop.  Both of them are flawed and see their match as a last resort.  Lord Winthrop has terrible, dangerous secrets, and when things go horribly wrong on their wedding night, Isabella is driven away for two years.  However, she can't stay away, driven both by very practical reasons (such as the need for money to support herself and her father) and the feeling that Lord Winthrop desperately needs saving.  Can Drayven confide in her without losing her?  Can she save him without losing herself?I read this novel in one sitting.  This was partially because it was a "light" read, but it was also because of the tension, much of it sexual, that Myles built throughout the book between Drayven and Isabella. (Once you read it, you'll understand what I mean.  Seriously, one more interruption and I probably would have screamed!)  Do they trust one another or don't they?  At times I found the language rather florid, especially the love scenes, but since I would classify this as a "romance novel," I rather expected that.  Myles somehow managed to work in gypsy curses, werewolves, ancient Egyptian curses, governesses marrying nobles, evil twins, evil stepmothers, ship building, and beach conservation all in one novel!