This is penned as a Beauty and the Beast retelling, which, you should probably cast out of your mind because it really isn't.

This book has been making its rounds on all kinds of platforms, so naturally, I picked this up to see what all the hype was about. I kept my

I am conflicted (and a bit sad) because I don't know how to feel about this book. Half of me wants to say I enjoyed it because I generally

Oddly enough, I had no intentions of reading this book anytime soon, but I was on the hunt for an audiobook and this was what I ended up pic

Nothing about this novel worked for me, sadly. I didn't find the story or the world to be particularly interesting at best, and not a single

Going into this, I didn't re-read the synopsis so I didn't know what to expect, but I found that I didn't mind the story.

This is on my '22 Books to Read in 2022' list, so at the very least I can say that I got this book checked off.

Retellings and reimaginings are a taboo subject for me because they never seem to be good for some reason. So I guess at the least I should