Christopher Reed’s Reviews > The Beast & His Beauty > Status Update

Author is terrible at writing smut, reading it is a mess. They’re a pile of limbs bending ways they shouldn’t be able to, and I’m certain she’s described them having more hands than they could.

This author has zero idea when she wants to set this novel. It’s it a modern day fantasy realm? Is it 17th century provincial France? Who knows? Certainly not “Willow Winters.”

Queue the painfully shallow villain that is only gonna be the villain because the author is gonna write them into being a rapist, ignoring that he’s giving off the same creepy vibes at the romantic interest.

The retelling aspects of this novel are interesting because it’s one of the only retellings I’ve seen that actually includes details from the original book by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve. This book has the prince rebuke the romantic advances of the enchantress leading to him being cursed.