Book Review: To Cure a Curse
To Cure a Curse by Sky Sommers
3 stars
Category: Adult
Note: $0.99 cents on Kindle
Summary: Beauty and the Beast retelling. But this time, our cursed prince is human when he meets Belle. His curse has him turn into a beast from Midnight to mid-day, but the rest of the hours, he’s a handsome young man, who Belle meets naked wandering in the woods. The book mostly focuses on their friendship and the prince hedging around his curse. When she does come face to face with his curse, she runs far away, in search of a cure, leaving him on his own as the curse takes over.
Comments: The best things about this book are the cover and the blurb and how short it is. I love Beauty and the Beast tales, for how gothic and atmospheric they are. This one, however, didn’t bother to describe the scene. It focused almost exclusively on the dialogue, which felt rather clinical and jaded. It doesn’t flesh out the prince or Belle as being anything more than the characters that we already know in the old fairy tale. I really would have liked to have known more about Caroline who was undead and falling apart. I think the mechanics of the curse confused me. Like it seemed too convenient how many rules it had and how it did this at this time and behaved this way at this time and I lost all respect for Belle when she seemed very eager to put the curse on the next generation, though I did like that she was pro-active. The part about the being forgotten, mentioned in the blurb really only takes one chapter nearly at the end of the book where they just plain decide to re-get to know each other. And then the story just skips to a year later. And it actually talks about sex. When it says fade to black, I was expecting it to be a relatively innocent story, but during the last couple of chapters it mentions intercourse (yes, actually referring to it as such) frequently and how they were worried about it with him being a beast etc, which really takes the romance out of it. The second half of the story feels rushed with how much gets time jumped forward. In all, it’s a short read and a different twist on the story while still having the usual elements.
3 stars
Category: Adult
Note: $0.99 cents on Kindle
Summary: Beauty and the Beast retelling. But this time, our cursed prince is human when he meets Belle. His curse has him turn into a beast from Midnight to mid-day, but the rest of the hours, he’s a handsome young man, who Belle meets naked wandering in the woods. The book mostly focuses on their friendship and the prince hedging around his curse. When she does come face to face with his curse, she runs far away, in search of a cure, leaving him on his own as the curse takes over.
Comments: The best things about this book are the cover and the blurb and how short it is. I love Beauty and the Beast tales, for how gothic and atmospheric they are. This one, however, didn’t bother to describe the scene. It focused almost exclusively on the dialogue, which felt rather clinical and jaded. It doesn’t flesh out the prince or Belle as being anything more than the characters that we already know in the old fairy tale. I really would have liked to have known more about Caroline who was undead and falling apart. I think the mechanics of the curse confused me. Like it seemed too convenient how many rules it had and how it did this at this time and behaved this way at this time and I lost all respect for Belle when she seemed very eager to put the curse on the next generation, though I did like that she was pro-active. The part about the being forgotten, mentioned in the blurb really only takes one chapter nearly at the end of the book where they just plain decide to re-get to know each other. And then the story just skips to a year later. And it actually talks about sex. When it says fade to black, I was expecting it to be a relatively innocent story, but during the last couple of chapters it mentions intercourse (yes, actually referring to it as such) frequently and how they were worried about it with him being a beast etc, which really takes the romance out of it. The second half of the story feels rushed with how much gets time jumped forward. In all, it’s a short read and a different twist on the story while still having the usual elements.