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A review by lunalibro
The Bride and the Beast by Teresa Medeiros
3.0
Actual Rating: 2.5-3/5
Beauty and the Beast is my all-time favorite fairytale and after watching the live action film I've been craving to read any good retelling. I was pretty excited for this book. I was so looking forward to an actual dragon shapeshifter but I was soooooo wrong. The story and characters didn't WOW me. I did enjoy the banter and the surprise twists. Though at one point when Gwendolyn revealed her big secret I was anticipating some MAJOR drama and I felt super excited about it, wondering how the characters will go about this moral dilemma only to be let down again. The sequence of actions after that felt very rushed which left me confused. Another thing that bothered me was the "Beast" wasn't really beastly(?) My overall opinion is very "meh"
Final Thoughts: Read/PASS
Beauty and the Beast is my all-time favorite fairytale and after watching the live action film I've been craving to read any good retelling. I was pretty excited for this book. I was so looking forward to an actual dragon shapeshifter but I was soooooo wrong. The story and characters didn't WOW me. I did enjoy the banter and the surprise twists. Though at one point when Gwendolyn revealed her big secret I was anticipating some MAJOR drama and I felt super excited about it, wondering how the characters will go about this moral dilemma only to be let down again. The sequence of actions after that felt very rushed which left me confused. Another thing that bothered me was the "Beast" wasn't really beastly(?) My overall opinion is very "meh"
Final Thoughts: Read/PASS