5 Words: Family, love, friendship, betrayal, violence. 
 It took me an embarrassingly long time to click that this was Beauty and the Beast inspired. 
 I liked this a lot more than The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest. The main character in this story is savvy and smart. She has a brain, she is not afraid to use it. She's no naive. She's a little speck of girl-power in an oppressive medieval setting. 
 I loved her faith and I didn't find the religious references overbearing. It was natural and fit with the story. 
 I liked the historical details, even if the setting in general was a little generic. I couldn't pin this down to any specific time period, just that it was medieval-ish olde-time-ish, historical-ish. But that's fine, because otherwise I would have nit-picked this to death.