A cursed prince sits alone in a secluded castle. Few have seen him, but those who claim they have say his hair is wild and nails are sharp–like a beast’s! But how did this prince, once jovial and beloved by the people, come to be a reclusive and bitter monster? And is it possible that he can ever find true love and break the curse that has been placed upon him?
This book is the second book in the Disney Villains book series by Serena Valentino. I gotta admit here that the deeper I get into this series the more I love the books in this series and the whole series in general. But of course I will explain everything in this review, so without making the intro longer than it needs to be lets get into the review.
First of all I need to mention here that this book diverges a little bit from the original beauty and the beast story. But it still was very good and interesting. The reason why this book diverges from the original story is because this book is told from Beast’s perceptive.
This book is written form the Beast’s perceptive and we see the story unfold from his perspective which makes us see different aspects of the story than we do in the original version of the story. Which I personally loved a lot, because having this story told once again but from Beast’s perceptive really adds more depth to the original story and it makes the story more fun in my opinion at least.
This book starts with telling us how the Prince changed into the beast and why he changed into the beast. Which in my opinion adds more backstory and information to the tale. I personally found it to be very interesting and enjoyable to actually get the backstory of why and how the prince Prince changed into the beast. Because ever since I could remember I always to know what got the prince to be changed into the beast. And this book tells us exactly what happened to make the prince change into the beast and what were the requirements for the beast to change back to his normal self.
The characters in this book are very good and well written. Because the characters in this book are very relatable and likable at the same time the characters in this book feel like real human beings in a way because of how much depth and personalities they have.
The characters in this book doesn’t have anything new to them which they didn’t have in the original story of Beauty and The Beast. But at times those characters feel somehow different but thats because we get to see those characters from Beast’s perspective rather than Belle’s perspective.
The writing style in this book is very YA typical, because it is very simple and easy to read. Even thou the writing style is easy and simple it complements with the storyline in this book very well. The writing style really nicely captures the storyline in this book which really made me give this book some extra points for doing.
I personally found the writing style in this book to be very hypnotizing because of how the writing style truly grabbed my attention and didn’t let it go until the very end.
But there is one thing which annoyed me with the writing style in this book. And that thing which annoyed me in the writing style of this book is the fact that at times the writing style tried way too hard to sound very poetic and musical. Which at times really made me cringe and make me annoyed.
Because of the easy writing style this book is a very quick read, it could very easily be read in one sitting because of how interesting it is and how it grabs your attention right from the start and doesn’t let it go until the very end of this book.
In my opinion the story feels pretty rushed at times, because there are certain paragraphs in this book which move very fast. Which in a way made me disappointed because I wanted this book to be longer and go more in depth into the Beast’s perceptive which it didn’t. And this for me personally is the only downside of this book.
I Give This Book 5 / 5
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