Here I was not sure because there was talk about steel and machinery that seemed to advanced for my liking. I mean I know there was no specific year was given in the original Beauty and the Beast but at least we had a general idea of the time it fell in. I was honestly confused in what era we were in for this book. I believe they only interacted twice at the beginning and then one final time near the end of the book where her disliked him actually was for a good reason. When we meet him he is not overly vain and self centred like in the original work and his interactions with Isabel were very few.
With no real interactions between Isabel and the Beast can this truly be called a retelling? Gaston was made out to be a villain with no real reason initially. Thinking maybe 'the Beast' was a metaphor for the way Kat would treat her at some point later on in the story. In fact the Beast was so invisible in this story, I thought a romantic relationship was actually going to happen between Isabel and another servant named Kat. That is way to late to give a damn anymore. We barely learned anything about the Beast initially and only started to learn more about him and his background in the last 10% of the book. The characters were all lack lustre and they were not ones you could relate to or root for. There was no relationship of any kind between her and the Beast and I felt like this book only needed to be rid of him for it to become any generic, unaccomplished contemporary. The whole story was basically about Isabel and her barely explored lusty thoughts. Without all the repetition, this book would have been half the size. I kept thinking that the only reason why the author would be doing this would be to try and give the book bulk. I had to re read whole sections at the beginning only to realize that it wasn't that I didn't understand what was happening at that point but that the writer had chosen to repeat themselves unnecessarily. The writing was very repetitive and more than a third of the book was dedicated to nothing of importance. I think that a BDSM version of this tale is a possibility but I did not think it was executed well here. The only points borrowed from the original story were the character of the Beast and the fact that he kept her in a castle and that there was a guy named Gaston. I didn't feel the magic or the love that is suppose to supersede all in this story. This is suppose to be a Beauty and the Beast retelling but I felt that it was a very loose retelling. I did not enjoy this book in the slightest and it was primarily with the grammar and then the plot of the book. I literally finished this book a few seconds ago and did not want to wait a moment longer to review it. *** Disclaimer: I received this book from the author/publisher via Netgalley for an honest review.***
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