(4 out of 5)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Kyle Kingsbury has it all money, good looks, and a gorgeous girlfriend. He thinks the world should be full of good looking people and the rest should just fade away. When a not so pretty girl in his English class calls him “ugly” he decides to get back at her. The joke ends up on him. She turns him into a beast.
Excerpt from Beastly:
“I was a beast. I stared into the mirror. I was an animal, not quite wolf or bear or gorilla or dog, but some horrible species that walked upright, that was almost human, yet not. Fangs grew from my mouth, my fingers were claws, and hair grew from every pore. I, who’d looked down on people with zits or halitosis, was a monster (pg 47, Flinn).”
Kyle is given two years to find someone who will love him for what he is. Her love and kiss will break the curse and set him free.
This is a modern day version of Beauty and the Beast. The book is partially told in a chat room format. I thought it was a fun change of pace, but I’m glad the whole book wasn’t written like that. The abbreviations would have driven me crazy in the long run.
Excerpt from Beastly:
“I was a beast. I stared into the mirror. I was an animal, not quite wolf or bear or gorilla or dog, but some horrible species that walked upright, that was almost human, yet not. Fangs grew from my mouth, my fingers were claws, and hair grew from every pore. I, who’d looked down on people with zits or halitosis, was a monster (pg 47, Flinn).”
Kyle is given two years to find someone who will love him for what he is. Her love and kiss will break the curse and set him free.
This is a modern day version of Beauty and the Beast. The book is partially told in a chat room format. I thought it was a fun change of pace, but I’m glad the whole book wasn’t written like that. The abbreviations would have driven me crazy in the long run.
