I've heard so many good opinions about this book. How awesome it was, how well-written it was, how it was possibly better than the original version of Beauty and the Beast (blasphemy!) ... 
 This book could have been done a lot better. It was well-written, yes. But it was hard to enjoy it when the main character was just so ridiculously vain that it just made me want to headdesk for the duration of, oh I don't know -- forever. 
 Kind of like that, yes.