I love Sandhya Menon’s YA contemporary romances, so when I heard she was writing a new series of retellings, and set at a boarding school no less (two of my favorite things) I thought, “Sign me up!” This one is a loose Beauty and the Beast retelling. It was refreshingly different in that the beast was only a beast in his mind, and the beauty had a vendetta that made her not so much of a beauty, but there were still some familiar elements of the original, like a “tower”, a “West Wing”, and a version of petals falling.
I liked that Grey challenged Jaya’s firmly held beliefs about her duty to her family and country, and that she challenged the beliefs his father instilled in him. I enjoyed their push-pull relationship, because it was realistic.
I also enjoyed the other characters in the story, even though I keenly felt Jaya’s frustration with DE’s love life as well. I can’t wait to see who the next books in the series will be about, because I enjoyed Rahul and Leo and even Caterina towards the end.
The only downside was that I knew who had ACTUALLY run the articles about Isha from the beginning. It was obvious early on that it wasn’t Grey, and it was painfully obvious to me who it was. I was frustrated it took Jaya so long to figure it out.
In the end, though, everything worked out, and I loved the setting as well. Even though there was typical high-school drama, it was a light and thoroughly enjoyable read.
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What a cute book!! The beginning was a bit slower than I expected, but it picked up very soon and the last 100 pages were the best!! It’s supposed to be a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but I could also feel elements of Elizabethan-Romeo-Juliet-esque elements in some of the more action packed sequences, but it is about teenagers in boarding school so nonetheless, it was quite enjoyable, and left me with a happy heart (as do all of Sandhya Menon’s books!)
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