Despite the Beast being despicable, I didn't really hate him - because I felt like I was watching him change for the better. It was a little bit dark, just like I like it and definitely not something that could be considered YA due to the sexual content within. After reading the first book I might have said that this would be considered one of my favorite Beauty and the Beast retellings.
I really started out liking this series a lot. This review is going to include all three installments and will contain spoilers. Can Benella (Beauty) still find the creature she fell in love with inside the stranger who now stands before her?.Ī super interesting premise that was, at least for me, executed in an underwhelming way, unworthy of the two previous volumes of the story.
And I was excited that she chose to focus her third volume on what happens after the supposedly happily ever after, when the Beast turns human. Too bad, because the author's writing was so imaginative, enthralling and luscious up to this point.
The heroine unfortunately succumbed to total martyr syndrome that was only hinted at in the first two volumes and she made a gazillion TSTL choices that had my eyes rolling. Haag, the first two acts in this trilogy retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, in which I met and followed the journey of the protags, I became a resident of the terrific fantasy parallel universe she has created, I enjoyed the literary style of the author's writing, I was enthralled by the erotic tension, and I hung on to every twist and turn of the suspenseful plot. What happened to the brave, no nonsense, charismatic heroine of the first two volumes of this Beastly trilogy? I loved, loved, loved, Depravity and Deceit by M.J.
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