(blinks) Well, this is a touch awkward... 
 So I was expecting a great Beauty and the Beast retelling I'd be raving over when I got to the reviewing part, what with all the positive feedback this book has gotten, but honestly? I just feel kind of indifferent to it. 
 The writing is very vivid, which makes you want to keep reading, and it's truly a unique reimagining of an old story, but it wasn't as good as I thought it would be. The characters didn't endear me, not even as antiheroes, and the plot twist really -- in my humble opinion as both a reader and a writer myself -- wasn't much of a, well, twist. 
 So it's good, but not great, and I don't think I'd go out and buy it or look to read it again anytime soon. 
 Meh.