Valentino, Serena The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty’s Prince
(Villains, #2), 215 pages. Disney Press,
2014. $17. Content: Language: PG (3 swears); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG.
The Prince reflects on his life before Beauty arrived when he was friends with
Gaston and engaged to a girl named Circe.
When the prince finds out from Gaston that Circe is a pig farmer’s
daughter, the prince breaks off their engagement. Circe’s a witch and so are her sisters, so to
punish the prince, Circe’s sisters put a curse on the prince that slowly turns
him into a beast. The beast tries to get
another girl to fall in love with him, but his beastly ways start to take
over.
This is a closer look as to why
the prince is turned into a beast. I
felt like the three sisters were the villains and that the beast isn’t ever considered
a villain, so it’s confusing what this book is doing in this series. My other disappointment with this book is
that Beauty isn’t hardly in it at all, and the subtitle of the book implies
that it will be about Beauty and the prince.
I don’t like the three witches and this story was annoying.
EL, MS – OPTIONAL. Reviewer, C. Peterson.
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