Beast: A Tale of Love and Revenge

By Lisa Jensen

Book Overview

Filled with magic and fierce emotion, Lisa Jensen's multilayered novel will make you question all you think you know about beauty, beastliness, and happily ever after. They say Ch teau Beaumont is cursed. But servant-girl Lucie can't believe such foolishness about handsome Jean-Loup Christian Henri LeNoir, Chevalier de Beaumont, master of the estate. But when the chevalier's cruelty is revealed, Lucie vows to see him suffer. A wisewoman grants her wish, with a spell that transforms Jean-Loup into monstrous-looking Beast, reflecting the monster he is inside. But Beast is nothing like the chevalier. Jean-Loup would never patiently tend his roses; Jean-Loup would never attempt poetry; Jean-Loup would never express remorse for the wrong done to Lucie. Gradually, Lucie realizes that Beast is an entirely different creature from the handsome chevalier, with a heart more human than Jean-Loup's ever was. Lucie dares to hope that noble Beast has permanently replaced the cruel Jean-Loup -- until an innocent beauty arrives at Beast's ch teau with the power to break the spell.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763688800
• ISBN13: 9780763688806
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

A wonderful retelling of the Beauty and Beast Retelling

First and foremost, this book does need a trigger warning for one instance of r@pe. If that does trigger you, indeed stay away. However the book as a whole is wonderful written and the story of Beauty and the Beast is retold in brand new and totally unexpected way. Keep in mind the one star ratings this book often receives (here or other platforms like Amazon) is not a critique of story or writing itself but a response to the aforementioned event.

Trigger Warning

Just a heads up this book has themes of r*pe and she falls in love with the guy who did it