Holy fuck. Cornball city. I'm ashamed to give this book 3 stars admitting I actually kind of sort of liked it. However, I liked the movie better. It was less corny and weird (not that it didn't have unbearable amounts of corniness/awkwardness also). You see, I have this theory about corniness: It's like candycorn, a little bit is good sometimes, while if you have too much of it you kind of feel sick. That's what this book was like, eating too much candycorn. 
 I also felt like it followed too closely too the actual Beauty and the Beast fable/fairytale/whatever-it-is. I mean the story was written like over a hundred years ago when weird thoughts like the ones that ran through Kyle/Adrian's head sometimes were not as crazy as they seemed going through a modern day sixteen year old guy's head. I literally cringed at the awkwardness sometimes, it was painful to hear (I listened to the audiobook) and even more painful was some of the things they said, that was just over the top cheesy love story (not a fan btw). 
 Yet, here I am, giving it 3 stars like the dork I am, admitting that I not only finished this book on how-to-be-in-an-awkward-fairy-tale-love-story-and-act-like-a-crazy-person-sometimes-by-roaring-at-people but enjoyed it a little bit all the same. Though I think this is geared to a younger audience than the bored 17 year old with nothing else to do in life than listen to this, the writing was simple and not anything special, what you would expect from a kid's book because they're vocabulary isn't really all that developed yet. Not really worth the read to tell the truth, I'd watch the movie instead if you're really rearing for a Beauty and the Beast story, no matter how strange...now that I think about it though, the entire concept is weird so I guess I can't really complain.