** spoiler alert ** 
 Uh.... 
 I must admit to reading the end of this book very quickly as I had to be somewhere and I wanted to finish it first. It left me a little confused and so I had to double check when I got back. 
 He stays the Beast? 
 I find this a little disturbing, his being largish and rather animal like to her human. That's not a private life I want to even consider speculating over. I feel this was a pointless gesture towards the whole 'it's what's inside that counts' conclusion it was obviously aiming for, considering that's the main theme of the story anyway. 
 And he was a pretty decent sort before he became the Beast? And confined himSELF?! I was coping with the excessive discriptions (mainly by skipping them) until this point. I feel that in an effort to make it new she's made it too different and, like a bad film adaption, held on to all the wrong bits of the original (will you marry me, Beauty?) and not kept the more important ones (Vain, greedy, cruel man learns his lesson). 
 Left feeling a little disappointed at this and curious as to other adaptions...