Alex Flinn's "Beastly" surprised me as an adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast" in that I didn't expect it to be as potent with its respective themes, translation into modern-day high school cliques and issues, and adopting to a teen boy's distinctive voice. While I do have some qualms with respect ...
Reminded me a lot of Disney's version. It went back and forth between teen angst and old fashioned. That being said it was still cute, fun and entertaining. Crude humor and swearing. It wasn't terribly original or consistent.This book is also reviewed on my blog Books: A true story
This was a re-telling of the classic Beauty and the Beast story - or so I'm told. Yup... believe it or not, I have never read or watched the Beauty and the Beast. Of course I knew the basis, but this was my first full experience with the classic story. My first thought: I liked it. As a story it was...
If you've read or seen any version of Beauty & The Beast then you know the basic story premise. Flinn has added her own modern-day interpretation. What really made it interesting to me, was that the story was told in first person from the Beast's/Kyle's perspective.
Everyone who is familiar with "Beauty and the Beast", will have no problem getting into the story. There are no "new" things introduced, except maybe that the characters are in their teens, and it's a story in modern New York City. Having said that, I truly enjoy this story SINCE it is told from the...
Not so good. So I was OK with doing a modern version of Beauty And The Beast, but I feel like it should have been done on it's own without constantly referencing fairy tales and Disney and so on. I get that in a modern world any normal teenagers would know the story, but I guess I feel like that s...
Beastly is just a re-telling of beauty and the beast and keeps quite close to it with a modern day take on it.The writing style is okay have to say nothing really stood out for me. There was some nice little touches like the roses and greenhouse on the roof and the connection between to two main cha...
A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast told from the beast's point of view. As such, I knew the story before I even opened the book, and there was no surprise ending, but honestly? That didn't matter one bit. Alex Flinn wrote an extremely charming story where one was in turns exasperated with an...
This book is a modern day re-telling of the classic Beauty & The Beast story. This particular version is also now a major motion picture. I picked it up after finishing Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins, because I felt like I need a book chaser that would leave me feeling all warm and fuzzy and Beastly ...
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