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beecatbell's review
1.0
Why does Collette fall in love with Beast?
Why does Beast live in a rundown town building when he used to live as a wealthy Italian?
Why does he have so much marble?
Why does Collette only have one facial expression?
Why do we only get to see Beast about six times?
Why is Roz (the "housekeeper") a character that even needs to exist?
Why did I read this?
I love Beauty and the Beast. I read retellings of it sometimes. This graphic novel is Beauty and the Beast's distant cousin. They bear sort of a resemblance if you squint hard enough. The main essence of the Beauty and the Beast fable (in my opinion) is that Beauty saves the Beast by looking past his outward appearance. She falls in love with him because he is good, not because he has a castle or is attractive or woos her or anything. They just fall in love.
In THIS version of the fable, Beauty (here named Collette) just makes a marble carving for the Beast and sorta maybe falls in love with him in the end. They don't really talk to each other so the ending comes out of the blue really. The Beast is a shadow squiggle with elf ears and wears a suit. He doesn't really need saving and never is saved. There is this half-assed explanation that he is reincarnating Collette (I think. It's so vague I'm not really sure what the hell was going on). They were Italian artists or something and then somehow he turned into shadow squiggles and somehow she is reincarnated and then he finds her reincarnation and wants her to make a marble statue of him because the old her liked marble. Like I said, It was confusing so I'm not sure.
Why does Beast live in a rundown town building when he used to live as a wealthy Italian?
Why does he have so much marble?
Why does Collette only have one facial expression?
Why do we only get to see Beast about six times?
Why is Roz (the "housekeeper") a character that even needs to exist?
Why did I read this?
I love Beauty and the Beast. I read retellings of it sometimes. This graphic novel is Beauty and the Beast's distant cousin. They bear sort of a resemblance if you squint hard enough. The main essence of the Beauty and the Beast fable (in my opinion) is that Beauty saves the Beast by looking past his outward appearance. She falls in love with him because he is good, not because he has a castle or is attractive or woos her or anything. They just fall in love.
In THIS version of the fable, Beauty (here named Collette) just makes a marble carving for the Beast and sorta maybe falls in love with him in the end. They don't really talk to each other so the ending comes out of the blue really. The Beast is a shadow squiggle with elf ears and wears a suit. He doesn't really need saving and never is saved. There is this half-assed explanation that he is reincarnating Collette (I think. It's so vague I'm not really sure what the hell was going on). They were Italian artists or something and then somehow he turned into shadow squiggles and somehow she is reincarnated and then he finds her reincarnation and wants her to make a marble statue of him because the old her liked marble. Like I said, It was confusing so I'm not sure.
glitterandtwang's review
4.0
I was surprised at how much I liked this. I picked it up because the art caught my eye, but the story sucked me in more than I anticipated. It might be my favorite retelling of Beauty and the Beast in the last several years, and that's saying a lot.
heypretty52's review
4.0
Visually, this book is very appealing. Black and white and thick like charcoal, the images really impress upon the reader the dark and imposing presence of Beast. That being said, the retelling of the classic fairytale implied is lost behind the shadows of the illustrations.