A review by thistlechaser
Beast by Donna Jo Napoli
1.0
In this retelling of Beauty and the Beast, a Persian prince gets cursed because he "incorrectly" sacrificed an animal. That he did it "incorrectly" was really confusing, because he talked through his logic of doing it, and the logic seemed perfectly sound.
I didn't even get to the part where he was turned into a "beast" (a lion), because it was just so annoying to read. Every other paragraph, the author would translate some word into Persian or Arabic. It added nothing at all to the story. The first sentence of her author bio is: Donna Jo Napoli is both a linguist and a writer of children's and YA fiction. Linguist is listed even before writer, and that showed.
DNF
I didn't even get to the part where he was turned into a "beast" (a lion), because it was just so annoying to read. Every other paragraph, the author would translate some word into Persian or Arabic. It added nothing at all to the story. The first sentence of her author bio is: Donna Jo Napoli is both a linguist and a writer of children's and YA fiction. Linguist is listed even before writer, and that showed.
DNF