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This fairy tale retelling is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It is set in New York in the present time. The main character is a boy who used to be Kyle Kingsbury before the witch in his English class cast a spell on him turning him into a beast who has to hide during the day. Before he was turned into a beast he had everything anyone would want, he had the popularity and the good looks. While his father has made tons of money as a news anchor, he doesn't have any relationship with Kyle. This makes Kyle into a cruel boy who doesn't care much about anything and relies on his good looks and money. The girl in his English class casts the spell on him because he had played a cruel joke on her. He asked her to a dance never actually intending to go with her and goes with the the "hottest" girl in school. His maid buys the wrong flower for her and she gets really upset. When he gets into the dance he is still upset and sees the ugly girl that he had invited earlier and tells her that no one would ever want to dance with her. The curse gives him two years to find true love or he will have to stay a beast forever. He is sent to neighbourhood far away and given a blind tutor. When a he is almost robbed he trades the mans life for his daughter, to save her from being traded to someone much worse than him. They grow to be friends and he realizes he loves her when she runs away and gets into trouble.
The appeal of this story is that it is set in the present time and if there was magic in the world it could potentially happen. The people that would read this would be the higher end of the Jr High level (grades 8-9) and the High school (grades 10-12) and potentially some younger adults. It is different enough from the original that you don't feel like you are reading a childish story.
Rating: 4/5
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