I enjoyed this book. The story was an original take on the Beauty and the Beast tale and was suspenseful enough that it kept me turning the page. I think the author could have used a better editor. There's a lot of word and phrase repetition and the characters tend to explain their whole psychology to each other on a regular basis. It makes the story a little fan-fictiony. But overall I thought the story and plot were very good and I even shed a tear or two at the end.