The Spooner's Beauty And The Beast

In a world where females had only one options: marriage. To be wed is the only way they can ensure they will be take care of for the result of their life, along with their parents if they girl has no brothers. For most this is oaky, as their future husband is kind and cares for them in a way no other have. Some it is a match made in heaven, and have girls throwing themselves at their potential suitor. In the cities highest aristocrats was a man and his three daughters: Lena, Asenka and Yeva. Lena was already spoken for, a merchant son who she is desperately in love with. Asenka knew she might never find love, with an illness at birth, it left one of her legs crippled, but even as she hobbles about she is one of the best doctors the city has ever seen. Yeva was the beauty of the three. The youngest, her nickname Beauty stuck with her from birth until Yeva was given as her official name. Her father favorite, the one thing she wants more than life is to be a hunter, and not a house wife.

Yeva was not like the other girls. Where the other girls who hang out with the baronesses, wanted to talk …show more content…
Spooner kept the writing sharp and fast pace, and where you saw what could have been a romance from our Beauty and the Beast, she changed it so all all times beauty was out to kill the beast. The ending is not shocking, as she did get the ending of the tale right. Where Solmir is a much better Gaston, his ending makes you smile too. Where many people criticize the story of Beauty and the Beast, it is nice to see from Yeva perspective of why she stayed and why she may have returned (and it is not Stockholm syndrome). It is a battle to the death, and Yeva is faced with the biggest game of her life; the monster who killed her father, kept her from her sisters, and made her fall in love with, it is Beauty vs. the Beast, winner takes