I have such a love-HATE relationship with this book, but let me make it clear that I do not claim this version of Belle whatsoever! Thank you so much to the publisher, Disney-Hyperion, for providing me with a copy of this to read and review. stars, with the extra half star easily attributed to the way the elements of the fairytale and Disney film were woven into the story. I mean if she would acknowledge her lack of support at the end, then maybe I would be singing a different tune but she doesn't really. Her big arc is to stop being meek and passive and realize that she was worthy of voicing her opinions and taking the crown all along.

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Además tiene magia, de una manera sutil y que al igual que la película, se entrelaza con los personajes, especialmente Bella. How she became “the Jessica Mitford of the IRA” is the subject of Heiress, Rebel, Vigilante, Bomber, a superb biography by Sean O’Driscoll, a former lawyer from Ireland, whose previous book, The Accidental Spy, told the story of an American trucker who became an FBI plant in the IRA. It felt like someone had taken the ended script, the part after the wedding, and printed it in a book. She was heading to the Palais-Royal, armed with the piecemeal knowledge she had collected from travelers through Aveyon who told her Philippe, the duc d’Orléans, had opened the gardens to the public some years before. In this sweeping YA fantasy series, Disney’s Princesses grow up—and learn to rule—guided by the magical Queen’s Council.

She tried to talk to each person she met, but she was soon swarmed by children with outstretched hands. The villain was easy to spot the moment he appeared, and it didn't help that Belle was constantly alluding to him. Potts, Lumiere and Cogsworth, all behaved as you would expect them too and I appreciated that consistency. Is it because he's part of the French aristocracy and in direct conflict with the good of the common people? but again, that's not really a spoiler because she's just so heavily queer-coded from the moment she's introduced.

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It was nice seeing her grow into her own as a ruler and seeing her and Prince Lio grow as a couple, but this one character aspect confused me. I know it's harsh but I feel like I didn't get what I thought I would find when I requested this book. The action picks up a few months after the conclusion of the original Disney animated movie, Beauty and the Beast.A long lost cousin, having forgotten entirely about Adam during the curse, Bastien is introduced very early on. Plus I've been dying to get my hands on a book that deals with everything after the curse has been lifted. The potential for a book that I would love was there, but the character execution just didn’t work for me personally. Additionally, he had literally no motivation, and his actions were extreme for someone who should have been invested in the opposite cause.

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The white-clad debutantes have been replaced by retired nuns; the queen holding court has become Mary, Queen of Heaven, in the form of a graceful statue overlooking a Dublin retirement home for nuns. It's a little tense since Belle wants nothing to do with her title but I don't think Lio really cares either. I liked how we were reunited with the original gang and I also liked there were some interesting new characters.Emma does an amazing job replicating the same personalities as the movie characters making the transition so smooth. but with a continuation, it makes sense that the follow up be similar to the original story, and i just did not get that with this. The story revolves around the theme of listening to your instincts especially if you are a woman being told no. When they reach Paris, Lio’s cousin, Bastien, also known as the duc de Vincennes, informs them of the French Revolution, and how the working class of Paris is not happy. He wouldn't trust her word, he didn't value her opinion, he ignored her complaints, he tried to keep her at the castle in the name of "protection" and honestly acted a lot like Tamlin in ACOMAF.