Published: June 4th 2012
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Retellings, Shifters
Pages: 142
Format: Ebook
Source: Free on Amazon
A prince by day and a wolf by night—
Prince Alexander has been turned into a werewolf and has one year to find someone to love the beast and break the spell, or he will be a wolf forever. He has nearly given up achieving the impossible, knowing no girl would ever fall in love with such a monster.
Just when he is about to abdicate the throne to his cousin, he meets Cecelia Hammerstein-Smythe, while a wolf, and begins to hope for the first time in months. Can he balance both worlds as a human and beast, gaining the love and trust of a girl who has every reason to despise him?
Cecelia detests the prince. She only knows Alexander as the arrogant monarch—the tyrant who has made her life miserable—though perhaps he's changed right before her eyes. He's not as full of himself as he once was. The prince is gentle now... but then again, so is the beast.
I only really got this because it was free and counted towards my fairy tale challenge but I'm pretty glad I picked it up!
Beauty and The Beast is a cute, traditional take on the fairy tale. Alexander is a prince forced to turn into a beast each night, while Cecealia is a typical village girl with a huge heart. I liked how Jenni James made the beastly aspect of the prince not his wolf form but his crappy personality as a human. He really wasn't that nice a guy, but by being trapped in beastly form he changed as a human. I liked that. I also liked the drama of Cecealia loving the beast but not the prince. I wasn't entirely sold on either character, but I did enjoy their romance and rooted for them towards the end.
Not a particularly outstanding or unique retelling, but an enjoyable one nonetheless. No world-building though!
Beauty and The Beast is a cute, traditional take on the fairy tale. Alexander is a prince forced to turn into a beast each night, while Cecealia is a typical village girl with a huge heart. I liked how Jenni James made the beastly aspect of the prince not his wolf form but his crappy personality as a human. He really wasn't that nice a guy, but by being trapped in beastly form he changed as a human. I liked that. I also liked the drama of Cecealia loving the beast but not the prince. I wasn't entirely sold on either character, but I did enjoy their romance and rooted for them towards the end.
Not a particularly outstanding or unique retelling, but an enjoyable one nonetheless. No world-building though!
Characters ★★★☆☆
Setting/world building ★★☆☆☆
This was such an adorable book :D I also liked the other books in this series. She managed to capture the magic I always find in fairytales.
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