Title: Beauty and the Beast (Faerie Tale Collection #1)

Author: Jenni James

Genre: Fairy Tales, Young Adult

Published: August 29, 2012

There were things new to me in this retelling I had never encountered before and I thought they were an interesting idea. The first was the beast wasn't an animal all the time. During the day he was human and still able to go about his daily life as he had before. I thought the book taking place in a normal regency courtship setting. The other thing was they knew each other before he was cursed. They did not have a good relationship from before, in fact he had been intentionally mean to her.

I did wonder why the girl didn't have a problem dealing with a talking wolf and I thought their friendship developed rather quickly. Her feelings toward the prince also do an abrupt about face. I would have liked to see more depth. I was a little confused by the prince's inability to see the villain's motivations and his possible actions to get what he wanted.

Overall I gave this book 3 stars out of 5.