Who doesn't love a fantasy retelling, and Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorite. This book has everything, great stories, smut, fantasy, and interesting character if you haven't read anything by St. Clair I would recommend you do, she has a unique and interesting way of capturing a story and its characters!

I loved everything about this book! The way Scarlet wrote this world had me captivated from the first page! I absolutely loved the story and the way it played out and can’t wait for more from this story!

I really liked the fairy tale vibes in Mountains Made Of Glass. Such an interesting world that felt developed without too much world building taking me out of the main storyline. I thought the pace and characters were attention capturing without being too much.

Not my favorite book by her. But it was a nice quick read with a good romance plot. I typically enjoy her books more but I just found the writing hard to get into this time.

Loved this quick fantasy retelling! While the plot felt a bit rushed, I loved the smut, romance and the characters. Had a lot of potential for a longer romantasy, just felt a little bit short to connect with at times. Overall super fun, interesting and scratches the itch for a smutty fantasy!

Beauty and the Beast is one of my favourite fairytales. I only wish this book felt more unique than just a retelling. Every plot point I drew parallels and not much felt original.

Enemies to lovers is one of my favourite tropes and I was so nervous when I read the page count. The slow burn that enemies to lovers requires is usually hard to cram into a single book let alone 200 and handful of pages. The constant flipping from Gisela warming up to the Prince of Thorns and then hating him the next gave me whiplash. It felt like every chapter her inner monologue starts off with “I hate him” or something to that extent. It was exhausting to read.

I did like the word puzzle and riddle to figure out the prince’s name. It was one of the thing that compelled me to keep reading. The fact that it needed to be said with love in only 7 days was very unrealistic. A more realistic timeless of several months would have made the story more believable.

One of my favourite parts was the pictures sprinkled throughout the book. I kept forgetting this book had pictures and was so pleasantly surprised every time I came across one. More adult books should have pictures! It really added to the fairytale feel.

One thing that Scarlett St Clair never fails to impress me on is her spice. It is so good I tend to overlook other parts of the book I might not have enjoyed as much. This book was no exception.

Overall I’d recommend this book to someone who is looking for a retelling. If they are looking for a believable enemies to lover though I can’t say this book is it.

A spicy Beauty and the Beast reimagining. Overall a quick read and entertaining with a thin plot but interesting characters.

10 stars!!! An enchanting and adult fairy centered on Beauty and the Beast, but entertained with fairies, magic mirrors, evil royalty, and so much more. Engaging and addictive from beginning to end, and definitely not a child's fairy tale ;) A winner all around!

This was not a favorite of mine, despite the fact that I really loved the Hades/Persephone series.

The book was described as being a short fairytale retelling which sounded awesome, but the book was too short to allow for any real plot and character development. There was too much going on and it was all resolved too quickly, Instead of focusing on building the fantasy world, the story was fixated on the characters lust for each other. But since there was minimal chemistry and romance, it was all overly sexualized.

This was a fast paced, quick read with a fairytale twist. I read it all in one sitting and it was a departure from Scarlett St. Clair‘s usual writing simply because it felt lighter. I really liked it. It was a bit cheesy at times but honestly it was full of banter and it was fun to see her spin on Beauty and the Beast (as opposed to Hades and Persephone).

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Scarlett St. Clair is a guilty pleasure of mine, and this book was no exception. Spicy, vaguely ridiculous plot points, couldn’t put it down.

Gesela is minding her own business in the woods and getting wood for the fire. Until she gets cornered in the woods and made to kill the frog in the well to break the curse.



Gesela is thrown into the well and the frog is kind enough to show her a way out. She really wants to just save this frog and not have to hurt it, but in the end it goes south. The frog she killed wasn't just a frog, but a prince.



Woken in the middle if the night, Gesela is surrounded by the elven princes. They want to punish her for killing their brother and so send her to live with another brother who they call the beast.



Gesela and the beast clash. Lots of back and forth and her hate for him is shown. So how in 7 days is she to find out his true name and say it with love.



She gains letters and asks how to find his true name. The mountains and the story of how it came down to someone having to say his true name with love.



I have a love/hate with this book. I love retellings and have fallen for Scarlett's other books. However, I am not a fan that the beginning didn't have more of a backstory. But the romance concept just seemed not the standard I'm used to with Scarlett's other books. It was rushed and just didn't seem right for them to go at each other to in love in a week. I had a hard time with that part.



Overall, I enjoyed it but its not my favorite by Scarlett. But I look forward to reading more by her.

I used to love Scarlett St. Clair's writing, but unfortunately, I think I've outgrown it.

I do like how she approaches spice, but the plots of her books have kinda gotten worse in my opinion. I had a hard time following this world.

I love her first Hades and Persephone books! The first Hades POV and first Persephone POV.

4/5 Stars

4/5 Spice

Thank you to Scarlett St. Clair and Blooms Book for providing me with an arc to read and review.

I really love most of Scarlett St. Clair’s books and I was very excited when I got approved for this. It somehow got pushed to the side but I recently found the audiobook and listened to that and it was amazing. This world was so interesting and I loved seeing an even darker side to Scarlett St Clair’s writing. This book is loosely inspired by beauty and the beast i believe and I think those elements were done very very well.

I recommend this for fans of Scarlett’s writing and those looking for a quick dark romantic fantasy book.

"𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙢𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙣'𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙛 𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙖 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙤𝙧 𝙣𝙤𝙩. 𝙎𝙤 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙄 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙝𝙚𝙧, 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛"

𝘔𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘵 𝘚𝘵. 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳

𝗕𝗢𝗢𝗞 𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗜𝗘𝗪
In order for Gesela to save her village from the curse, it is her turn to bare the consequences. Gesela has to kill the frog in the well, what she didn't expect was to be banished to the enchanted forest to be the prisoner of the Prince of Thorns.

Our dear morally grey Prince has a curse of his own, cursed to forget his name and to start fading away, he is in search of woman who will love him, love him to the extent that she would utter his true name. With these two constantly bickering and Gesela getting into all sorts of trouble. Will they be able to set themselves free from their curses.

This book is a retelling of a number of fairytales, although I love my fictional grey men, Mr prickly over here did absolutely nothing for me, his arrogance and misogyny made me dislike his character. Gesela was impulsive, she had a strong character on her own but around others she came across as weak.

Rating
3⭐
4🌶️

I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher.
There is no one fairytale that I could pin to this which was annoying. Also, the smut was excessive and took away from the story for me.

My gothic queen has done it again. St Clair stays true to the dark and eerie classic fairy tales in this short work. I have a soft spot for retellings and this will satisfy similar fans for sure

I didn’t realize this is a Beauty and the Beast retelling.

It’s short so honestly there were a lot of plot lines that either could’ve been expanded or shouldn’t come up in the first place. I think the author tried to add different elements to make this a fun retelling but I’m not sure it’s working here.

I guess it’s a short fun smutty read if you don’t think too much of it.

3.5 ⭐️

A quick read with a satisfying arc. This story pulls from fairy tales, mostly from Beauty and the Beast, where St. Clair makes them her own. The tension between the two main characters definitely earns this 4/5 chili peppers. The protagonist is an easy character to root for in her endeavor to break the curse of the fae prince that has her imprisoned. This story leads to many more potential books in this series from St. Clair, which I look forward to.

I read this book almost as fast as the main character fell in love with her captor. Gesela murders a fae prince cursed to be a frog and, as a punishment, is forced to live with one of his brothers. She then has to figure out the name of her fae captor to escape. However, pretty quickly readers learn that she only has a week to do it, and she has to be in love. As soon as the concept of falling in love in a week came into play, I was worried.

Some of the side characters that supported the story were so enticing and well thought out. I loved the bird who was a glorified taxi and only made a few brief appearances. I also enjoyed the creepy selkie man and the lore that was explained within that, but felt he didn't need to be sexualized so much. My main complaint though is that although there was lore and a driving plot, the main character and her love interest felt very half-baked.