It's an entertaining read, but falls way short in comparison to "Fairest of them All". I really started to like the back story of Beast and Circe, but I feel like all of the character connections lacked depth to them. And there were large jumps in the story--that a reader can fill in because it follows the disney movie so closely. I would have liked the story to be more in depth to his life before Belle. It seems as if the author wanted to focus more on the three sister, and that might be a more interesting story. It's obvious that her next book will be about Ursula, and I hope it is more like Fairest than Beast.

I do like the tie in of the three sisters and the magic mirror to Fairest.