this is the best retelling of Beauty and the Beast i have read, and i am a huge beauty and the Beast fan! it made me cry and fall in love with the "beast" and really feel for him. the poor kid just wants to be loved. the story is filled with friendship, understanding, family relationship repairs, and love. an LDS author so no profanity. just a cute clean read. perfect for teens and lovers of fairytales. If you've read or watched 'Beastly', skip this. Because this is just a less stellar re-write.I love 'Beauty and the Beast' stories, so when I saw this... at any rate, I really got angry at this book. Because it PISSES ME OFF so badly when only half of the disfigured dude's face is messed up. Because obviously, in literature, one can only be scarred/burned on half of one's face. It's the sign of a rotten, lousy writer, IMO, when I see that crap. Stupid, stoopid, StOopid...! And they always do that. C'mon. Fire doesn't know when to stop, it's FIRE. So annoying. But these authors who do this must have ONE perfect side of the face, or their heroine couldn't POSSIBLY love the beast. (?!)And this book SO echoed the movie, idea for idea... except not done as well. Both had the beautiful girl at school who was poor and lived with her substance abusing father. Both of them had the nerdy tutor in tweed pants (but Neil Patrick Harris was far and away a better character than this book's tutor). They both had the blackmailing to get her to stay with him. They both had the beast (Alex Pettyfer in the movie, 'Alex' in the book) as a guy with wavy blonde hair, hot pecs and soulful eyes. They both had the dark-haired beauty with the modern, sassy attitude. Both of them had the rich father and the amazing view from the top-dollar place Alex/Alex lived at. The movie had a kewl rooftop garden. The movie had Kendra. The movie was better than THIS.The ONLY thing that kept me from giving this one star was that the father figure was done better. He was sympathetic to his son's plight, although there was a ridiculous thread thru it - supposedly Alex had been seeing a shrink for EIGHT years, but never said that he felt guilty for being the one who lived, while his mom and sister died in the fire. And of course Alex thought his dad resented him for living, when really he was just sorry for what happened, at all. Which... what is the POINT of the eight years of counseling, if the actual problem was never addressed?! Poor writing. No shrink would be that inept. Yeah. This was... not good. Watch (or better yet, READ) 'Beastly', instead.
What do You think about Beautiful Beast (2000)?
linda historia... Aunque hubiera preferido algo de magia en todo el asunto
—Karen
I can not even begin to say how much I loved this book!
—Joana1119
I loved the fresh new take on a classic fairytale!
—chawalker
