A sappy and sweet 3.5 for me. I will forever love books that give a nod to other books I love and I will be forever suckered into reading any book that had anything to do with Beauty and the Beast, so they got me two for two there. Even though this feels more like gay-men-for-straight-women, then again that's probably true of 3/4 of the m/m romance out, I still enjoyed my read.