Review: Could have been great, but...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 1, 2013
I, too, am a sucker for retellings of the Beauty and the Beast story.  However, for anyone to even compare this book to Robin McKinley's book is ludicrous.  Her story was a polished work of literature.  This effort was amateurish and almost juvenile.  It was an interesting twist on the story and so much could have been done with the premise, but the characters and dialogue were childish, the descriptions shallow and incomplete.  Certain words like "horrible" and "terrible" were overused. Important background information was never divulged, subplots were abandoned, and it just seemed unfinished in so many ways. I just can't recommend this book.