But it's hard to live a normal life when your sisters, mother, and grandmother are all mediums, in contact with the spirit world, and when you live in Lily Dale, New York, a town devoted to spiritualism where seances are regular activities and everyone you meet has some affinity for the dead. All her life she's wanted to be normal, and now that she's found a chance to start over, she's not about to let anything ruin it. The chat room for monsters that Kyle joins at the beginning of the novel, which reappears intermittently, is original and amusing the frog from The Frog Prince has trouble typing with webbed feet, the Little Mermaid needs help deciding whether to pursue her prince, etc.Reviewed by Candace Cunard for įor Sparrow Delaney, having to switch schools before starting tenth grade isn't a curse-it's a blessing.
How they fall in love is believable within the story, and while there may be just a couple of moments where the action comes too close to the Disney movie, I liked this reworking a lot. He finds a girl to come and live with them, yes, you guessed it, the ticket taker from the prom. The rest of the story is great Kyle's father banishes him to a brownstone in Brooklyn where nobody will see him, where he has a housekeeper and a blind tutor (both marvellous characters). This one act of kindness ends up saving him, as a witch turns him into a beast but gives him an out because of the rose if he can find someone to love and who loves him in return he will be restored. She pitches a fit and so Kyle ends up giving the rose to the girl taking tickets at the door. His girlfriend is one of the popular kids as well, and on prom night he gets her a rose rather than the orchid she asked for. He has a very strained relationship with his father, an image obsessed tv anchor.
The main character, Kyle Kingsbury, is one of the rich popular kids at his private school. While Robin McKinley's classic Beauty is one of my top ten all time books, this retelling took a different approach. I love retellings of fairy tales, and Beauty and the Beast is one of my favourite tales to begin with.
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