I Found A Beasts, Belle not very interesting and could not finish. This was not because of the erotic subject matter, which I am perfectly fine with, but a lack of connection between me and the story. The writing itself was fine but it just failed to pull me in. I have refrained from writing a review online on account of not managing to finish this novel. sorry, this really didn't do it for me.

This was a very disappointing read. There was barely any story or character development. The ending was rushed and not well thought. I was really let down.

I had such high hopes for this seeing how I Love Beauty and the beast. Unfortunately those hopes fell flat. The Author uses way too much description and tends to drone on and on. This story really had not a thing to do with her being the Beasts Belle. This whole story focused on the disciplining and machines used for disciplining the staff at the Beasts Castle. THE WHOLE STORY! Well 3/4ths anyways. *Spoiler Alert!* the rape scene was a little much even with description and such. There should have been a trigger warning or something for those who don't know what they are walking into. I was tempted to DNF this title, but instead was left mourning the story this could have been with less description and more between Beast and Isobel.
* I voluntarily read a Advance Reader copy. All opinions are my own and honestly expressed.

This was an erotic outtake of a fairy tale. The story of Isabelle she lives with her Father and helps him build things. When a mysterious stranger comes to order something. She becomes curious. In the end he offers her a deal she can't refuse.
I found this to be a mild erotica book and based on the books description I expected more.

Couldn't get into this book. Tried twice but just couldn't connect with the characters.

I received this book from the author/publisher via Netgalley for an honest review.

.5 Stars!

What the hell I just read??? This was so damn boring and I didn't relate to no of the characters.I was bored to tears with the Belle character. This was so loosely based off of BATB that only two things resemble it was the fact it had a character who was named Gaston aka potential rapist and the Beast was deformed. That's it.

Two notes for the author

1. Learn what all of BDSM inclined before trying to pin your novel as one. It's more to it than having a couple scenes of people being resistant and getting whipped with a cane until welts come up. This felt like if E.L James decided to do a novel version of Eyes Wide Shut.. Like 50 Shades of grey wasn't good enough for her... It doesn't hurt to do research on a subject matter regardless if it's deemed taboo.

2. Giving someone a backstory when 90% of the book is over is not a good way to go. Especially when that character was like at least 50% of the book. That just shows how lazy the writing is. It was also very repetitive. Like they just copy and paste the same paragraph and put it on a different page.

I requested this book on Netgalley for a variety of reasons. New to me author, Beauty and the Beast retelling, beautiful cover, interesting blurb.. several things really stood out.
Once I got into the reading I realized quickly that it was written far differently from 99, if not 100% of the books that I read. That is not necessarily a bad thing, its just very, very different. And, as im finding out right now while typing this review, hard to explain.
The wording was eloquent and beautiful but at the same time repetitive and I felt many times like I was on a long, winding path to nowhere. I did like the character of Isabel and while she was very well developed (possibly over developed) - I really got no feel for the Beast's character until the last 15% or so of the story. I would have loved to see more from him and definitely have more of their relationship.
I find it hard to put a rating on A Beast's Belle because im uncertain as to whether or not its a set up for a second book. I really feel like it is and if so, its nicely done. If not.. well.. it stopped very abruptly and needs to be finished.
The author seems very talented and Beauty and the Beast is a great story to spin BDSM on, in my opinion.

Did not really enjoy this. The writing felt at times very cringing and that took me out of the story

I really enjoyed this books. I would definitely recommend this book to my friends.

I received an advance reader copy in exchange for a fair review. A different twist on Beauty and the Beast. It is well written and I would recommend it as a good read.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for my advanced copy of this book. I will start off by saying I love the concept behind the book and the cover. However this fell extremely short for me. This book was incredibly slow paced and somewhat boring. I read it pretty quickly and kept waiting for something exciting to happen, but it never did. If this is the first book in the series, then there wasn't anything in this one that left me wanting more, unfortunately. I rarely write negative book reviews, but this one just fell way short. It has nothing to do with the subject matter, that didn't bother me, and everything to do with the lack of a plot that keeps you engaged. I hope the author finds a way to engage readers in the next installment. This was compared to Anne Rice's Sleeping beauty series but this doesn't really hit the mark I am so sorry I wish i had something more positive to say

*** Disclaimer: I received this book from the author/publisher via Netgalley for an honest review.***

I literally finished this book a few seconds ago and did not want to wait a moment longer to review it. I did not enjoy this book in the slightest and it was primarily with the grammar and then the plot of the book.

This is suppose to be a Beauty and the Beast retelling but I felt that it was a very loose retelling. I didn’t feel the magic or the love that is suppose to supersede all in this story. The only points borrowed from the original story were the character of the Beast and the fact that he kept her in a castle and that there was a guy named Gaston. I think that a BDSM version of this tale is a possibility but I did not think it was executed well here.

The writing was very repetitive and more than a third of the book was dedicated to nothing of importance. I had to re read whole sections at the beginning only to realize that it wasn’t that I didn’t understand what was happening at that point but that the writer had chosen to repeat themselves unnecessarily. I kept thinking that the only reason why the author would be doing this would be to try and give the book bulk. Without all the repetition, this book would have been half the size. The whole story was basically about Isabel and her barely explored lusty thoughts. There was no relationship of any kind between her and the Beast and I felt like this book only needed to be rid of him for it to become any generic, unaccomplished contemporary.

The characters were all lack lustre and they were not ones you could relate to or root for. They were all completely forgettable. We barely learned anything about the Beast initially and only started to learn more about him and his background in the last 10% of the book. That is way to late to give a damn anymore. In fact the Beast was so invisible in this story, I thought a romantic relationship was actually going to happen between Isabel and another servant named Kat. Thinking maybe ‘the Beast’ was a metaphor for the way Kat would treat her at some point later on in the story. With no real interactions between Isabel and the Beast can this truly be called a retelling? Gaston was made out to be a villain with no real reason initially. When we meet him he is not overly vain and self centred like in the original work and his interactions with Isabel were very few. I believe they only interacted twice at the beginning and then one final time near the end of the book where her disliked him actually was for a good reason.

The world building was none existent. I was honestly confused in what era we were in for this book. I mean I know there was no specific year was given in the original Beauty and the Beast but at least we had a general idea of the time it fell in. Here I was not sure because there was talk about steel and machinery that seemed to advanced for my liking. I did have to look up things like the discovery of steel to make sure it fell in the era that the author was aiming for. The other thing that took me out of the era of the book was Isabel’s talk about her sexual gratification. What girl in that era referred to her labia?!?!? It just seemed to modern of a tone there and so anytime sexual observations came up, I was thrown out of the little story that was keeping me reading.

Above all of this was the fact that this book was given to me to review and it was poorly edited. There was an insufferable (well I made it through but only to review this book) amount of grammar and spelling mistakes that it throughly ruined the reading experience. I feel it was a disservice to the author for the publishing company to put out such his work in such an unpolished manner.

In the end I am glad to have finished this book and will not be recommending it to anyone in the future.

This is a re-imagining of Beauty and the Beast, and I was intrigued by the description. However although there are some good ideas and some well written passages, it is very slow and not much happens. The Erotic elements are not erotic enough and the rest is very wordy without saying much. Parts were reasonably good, but parts were really disappointing.
It feels like it is trying to be Anne Rice's Beauty trilogy but it doesn't grip and enthrall in the same way, and doesn't have the courage of its convictions.
Isabel is a strange woman, worldly but innocent and The Beast is bland: his physical presence stated over and over but not much else.
Gaston is perhaps the worst drawn character and so under-developed that his actions in the latter part of the book seem almost unconnected to character at all.
There is a lot of scene setting in this story and that is about all really. 2.5/5 starts.
Thanks to NetGalley for an review copy of this book. I write the review honestly without pressure or prejudice.

I really enjoyed this book. It is similar is style to the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure. It was definitely erotica, but the story is more than what is found in most erotica. It reads like a classic, with language similar to what I have found in books written by Charles Dickens, with an old world charm that helped draw me into the experience. There is a depth to the story and characters that I found unique and wonderful. I found myself loving the innocent yet worldly attitude that Isabel had. She seemed so real and her attitudes to her situation were very believable. The story is so detailed that some people might find it slow, but I prefer my books to have that depth, and if it is a series it makes perfect sense. I'm anxious to find out what happens next, since there wasn't a lot that actually happened to Isabel, and I plan on reading the rest of the series when it is released.

Seemed like an interesting concept, was touted as a similar story to the Beauty series by Ann Rice. I feel like I've been seriously misled. Honestly, I don't even know what I just finished reading, not entirely cohesive and definitely not going to be looking for the rest of the series. Sad to say I don't usually post negative stuff, but this was so disjointed I wish I had put it away but I don't like to not finish things when I plan to review something.

Prepare yourself for a rant.

I want to start with a quote. This quote was part of the (probably) automatically sent email I received after my request to receive this arc on NG was fulfilled.

"If after reading all or part of the book you find the material was very different than you what expected or the genre was not to your liking, the Author would appreciate you not review the book as opposed to posting a review that would not be fair to the Author."

Like… YOU DO NOT ASK A REVIEWER TO NOT PUBLISH THEIR REVIEW IF IT’S GOING TO BE A "BAD" REVIEWS. Never ever. Nope.
And the wording… like… I expected this ARC to be good, otherwise I would not have requested it. Surprisingly I do not request arcs I hope will be not enjoyable to me. Strange concept, I know. Very strange. But that’s how I roll.

Anyway. Let’s get to the book itself. You may have guessed that I did not like it - dnfing a book is a great indicator for this kind of thing.
First I didn’t enjoy the language. Too many adjectives (I like adjectives, just not… fucking everywhere). And then… the wording. There are some scenes where the mc does something to herself (you know what kind of things I’m talking about) and instead of using ‚her‘ the word ‚the‘ is used. Like she touched the clit and not her clit (not a direct quote, but near enough).

But I could have struggled on if at least the characters were likeable, mainly the MC. Which… she is not.
There is one special scene where I was like „fuck this“. Belle is in the woods, where she often is when she wants to masturbate. She does this a lot - that is not my problem, although those scenes weren’t interesting in the least - which is my problem. That’s not what I’m talking about, though.

As I was saying, she is masturbating. In the woods. The very public and not private property woods. And guess what? She is seen. Oh no. How could he have done that? Way to ignore someones private… wait. She is nowhere private.

To be fair, there is the possibility that he followed her to the public woods (he harasses her at some point and does probably again. Although I wouldn’t know because I didn’t read any further).

But my point remains.

She tries to have her alone time at a public place and some guy who sees her is the villain. That’s not how you can see things like that.

Summing it up... there wasn't anything that was enjoyable for me and with the e-mail thing... not a happy experience.

I was unaware that this was a story based on hard core BDSM. Unfortunately, that is not really my cup of tea. However, the writing was eloquent and flowed while the main character, Isabelle, was well developed. It is a great twist on the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast minus the magic and adding the strange restraining devices. It even includes the villain Gaston. There is not any romance or a couple falling in love. This is simply the story of a young woman who chooses to serve the Master in order to broaden her knowledge of the world around her.

This is the perfect book for someone that enjoys reading a story centered on BDSM. No epilogue and it feels as if there will be another book to follow it up.

I did enjoy this twisted fairy tale. I will look for the rest of the series.