Jeanne's Cyberspot for Reading Response: Beastly

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Beastly

by Alex Flinn
Hennepin County Library audiobook 6 discs
read by Chris Patton
genre: YA romance, fantasy

Basically, it's the Beauty and the Beast story in modern NYC.

Liked: interesting enough to listen to, great narrator, happy-ever-after, literary allusions and references

Disliked: the "chat room" stuff with other creatures who've had transformations, generally a shallow story, Kyle's jerk personality dominating so much of the book

Now I know what kind of reader to recommend it to!

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