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Questo libro, che altro non è che una trasposizione moderna de La Bella e la Bestia, è ricco di significato e di valori, quelli che contano davvero nella vita dell’uomo e che spesso, purtroppo, vengono sostituiti da futili apparenze del mondo moderno. Ho amato tantissimo questa storia, capace di farmi immedesimare nel protagonista Kyle, che fa un percorso “terapeutico”, non privo di sofferenze profonde, riuscendo però, infine, a diventare un uomo migliore, senza pregiudizi e in grado di guardare nel profondo dell’animo, tralasciando l’esteriorità. Purtroppo Kyle, ha dovuto affrontare una vita ricca di denaro e di lusso, ma carente di affetto paterno, tanto desiderato e mai ricevuto. A causa di questa mancanza, era diventato un ragazzo superficiale e mal disposto verso il prossimo, mascherando in questo modo, la sua richiesta d’aiuto; il suo aspetto fisico, da bellissimo ragazzo, lo invoglia a continuare per questa strada, non curandosi che oltre l’esteriorità esista una bellezza interiore, ancora più importante. Solo alla fine, grazie alla provvidenziale “punizione” della strega Kendra, riesce ad amare realmente e a farsi amare per l’uomo che è diventato, sensibile e amorevole, nonostante il suo aspetto fisico sia orribile. Capisce che il denaro, la fama, il successo non potranno mai comprare la felicità e colmare il vuoto che ha dentro. La scrittrice mi ha conquistato, regalandomi una storia carica di magia. Il libro è scritto in modo pulito, scorrevole, molto dettagliato. Ne consiglio vivamente la lettura a chi ama leggere i romance in chiave fantasy ed ha voglia di vivere un sogno. Da questa romanzo è stato tratto un film nel 2011, scritto e diretto da Daniel Barnz, con Alex Pettyfer e Vanessa Hudgens, di cui consiglio la visione.⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐♥️

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Un libro leggero e piacevole

Eleonora Simona Sacco

Recensito in Italia il 28 febbraio 2018

La storia de "la bella e la bestia" la conosciamo tutti, ma è sempre piacevole ripercorrerla anche rivisitata...il personaggio di Kyle/Adrian è ben costruito, quello di Lindy un po' meno ma il protagonista è lui quindi ci sta....la fine forse un po' precipitosa

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Un bel regalo per chi ama leggere

Stefano

Recensito in Italia il 23 gennaio 2023

E' un libro composto di copertina e pagine come tanti altri. Per il contenuto ,,,è stato un regalo, non saprei

Lettura non impegnativa ma piacevole

Cliente Amazon

Recensito in Italia il 5 ottobre 2017

Sana lettura- filone fantastico -da ragazzi. Piacevole oretta di relax. Consigliato per passare il tempo in viaggio. Bella copertina del libro.

Edoardo Donghi

La bestia di New York

Recensito in Italia il 24 settembre 2019

Un libro che scorre bene, i personaggi riescono ad affascinarti e riesci ad empatizzare con loro, decisamente meglio della trasposizione cinematografica. Un buon rimodernamento della “bella e la bestia” che riesce a calare bene e in modo credibile la storia nella New York contemporanea. Sono presenti chicchete che faranno sicuramente piacere agli appassionati del mondo delle favole. Un libro davvero bello

Recensito in Italia il 29 ottobre 2021

Da sfogliare tutto in una volta!!!!

Recensito in Italia il 1 maggio 2020

Costo davvero bassissimo a mia figlia e piaciuto molto

Recensito in Italia il 7 marzo 2021

Consegna puntuale e libro perfetto

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Lidiane Moura

Loved it

Recensito in Brasile il 13 aprile 2019

Love this book. I've already read it four times! Still, I just can't get enough of it. Probably gonna read it another time when I feel like it.
It's a "beauty-and-the-beast-like" romance - but in the present. It's kind and cute. Liked it very much.

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Kathryn

Great book!

Recensito in Francia il 22 ottobre 2018

I couldn't stop turning pages until I reached the end. And as usual, the book was better than the movie, which was pretty good by the way. This is about love and the sacrifices it requires, tolerance, kindness, understanding others and finding one's true self. A wonderful version of the fairy tale.

Esther Rodenas

Problemas con la portada.

Recensito in Spagna il 16 dicembre 2017

El interior del libro está perfectamente, recomiendo totalmente la compra. ¿A quién no le gusta un buen libro? El único problema que yo he tenido es con el estado de la portada, ya que me venía doblada por una parte. Si no fuera nuevo lo entendería, pero no fue así. Por último decir que nunca hay que juzgar a un libro por su portada, así que dadle una oportunidad.

Maggie

I double checked my book and am happy to say all the lines are in it

Recensito in Canada il 1 dicembre 2014

I've read this book many times, and I just received my deluxe edition today. I checked the other customer reviews and saw some had their books with the manuscript malfunction, I double checked my book and am happy to say all the lines are in it.

Frances

Fairy-tale fans will love this book.

Recensito nel Regno Unito il 11 luglio 2013

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"You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most...you are beastly."
Beastly by Alex Flinn

Beastly is a re-telling of Beauty and the Beast with a modern twist. I actually picked up this book after watching the movie adaptation of Beastly (I am so glad that I did because the book is so much better). I was curious to find out whether the author had given Kyle Kingsbury the tattoos and scars, or if this was the movie makers' decision. It turns out this was the movie makers decision, thankfully as Kyle is your more typical Beast in Beastly, "not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright," in the book.

The story follows Kyle Kingsbury, a high school student, who has it all. He is good looking and popular. He has an ugly personality though and is often found saying things like, "when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter. But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury--they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner." He openly bullies people who are not good-looking, but this back fires when he picks on a witch. The witch, Kendra, puts a spell on Kyle, turning him into a beast. She gives him two years to fall in love with someone and be loved in return. The spell will then be broken with a kiss. Can Kyle change that much that fast, or will he remain a beast forever?

Beastly is one of the best modern retellings of Beauty and the Beast that I've read. It is a quick read with only 320 pages; I think I read this in two days. I like the fact that the main character is a male and that the book is written from the perspective of the Beast versus the Beauty. This was refreshing to read as it gives the classic tale depth.

I really enjoy Kyle's personal transformation in the book. At first, he is arrogant and rude, and he clearly doesn't care about anyone but himself. He is often seen publicly humiliating students because they aren't "beautiful". I found it easy to dislike Kyle because he reminded me of so many of the boys who went to my school.

I really liked the part of the book just after Kendra transforms Kyle into a Beast on the outside to match his beastly personality. Kyle is an angry and impatient Beast. He attacks Kendra once she has cast the spell and swears he will kill her if she doesn't change him back. When this doesn't work, Kyle attempts other ways of turning himself back (e.g., shaving his fur off). When Kyle realizes none of this will work, he sulks alone for months. This took me back to the Disney Beauty and the Beast retelling whose portrayal of an angry Beast. I don't think any other Beast, since Disney's Beast has really portrayed the anger of the Beast well, but I think Flinn does a decent job.

At this point, it is still difficult to like Kyle, but I didn't sympathize with Kyle once I saw how his dad treated him. His dad is just like Kyle and thinks looks are what is important. When his dad realizes that surgery won't fix Kyle, he buys an apartment and sends Kyle to live there with a maid and a blind tutor.

Things take a turn for the better once Kyle spends time with Linda. He wants her to like him and, at first, he tries to buy her by giving her material things just as he would have done before the transformation. This doesn't work and it is only when Linda sees the true Kyle as they are being tutored together or watching movies together that she begins to warm to him. By the end of the book, he comes to care about others, bargaining with Kendra to get Will (his tutor) his sight back and Magda (his maid) green cards so her children can come to America too. Kyle also puts himself in harm's way to protect Linda. It seems that the Beast can change that quickly that fast, but whether someone can love him is another matter.

I liked how Flinn included many traditional elements from Beauty and the Beast in her retelling, but the reasoning behind the events was better thought out. For example, I liked that a witch cast a spell on Kyle to turn him into a Beast, like the original, but there was a plausible reason for why she casts the spell. In the Disney version, the Prince is turned into a Beast because he refuses to give an old beggar woman shelter from the storm. The old beggar woman transforms into a beautiful witch and places a curse on the Prince so he can learn to see past looks. Considering the Prince was a child at the time, it seems harsh to turn him into a Beast as a punishment. In Beastly, however, Kyle should know better at his age, and he is so vile that he really does deserve to become beastly so he can understand what it feels like to be judged by his looks.

I thought that Flinn's decision to change the reason for Linda moving in with Kyle was a good one. In most retellings, the Beast essentially kidnaps Belle by demanding that Belle's father bring Belle to him in exchange for his life. In Beastly, Linda's father offers Linda in exchange for his life when he is caught breaking into Kyle's greenhouse. This is much better in my eyes because I always found that aspect of the story made me feel uncomfortable. I also think this is plausible because Linda's father is a criminal and he later sells her to another criminal when she returns to him (so not out of the ordinary for her father). Also, Kyle is somewhat protecting Linda from her father in a weird way. I did and did not like how Lindy reacted to being sent to live with Kyle though. While I thought that her negative reaction towards Kyle was realistic because she is essentially a prisoner, when you consider how bad her father treats her throughout the book, I think it would have been good for Flinn to show that Lindy sees she is better off away from her father.

I like the inclusion of the magic mirror and how this is an important part of Kyle's transformation (i.e., he watches Linda through the mirror and comes to care about someone other than himself). Although, I do find it a little stalkerish and disturbing that Kyle watches Linda so much in the mirror before she comes to live with him.

Another plot point from Beauty and the Beast that was included in Beastly, was Linda's departure from Kyle when she sees her father is sick in the magic mirror. The fact that Belle doesn't return because her father wouldn't give her the address and then because her father sold her to another criminal. This was interesting and I like that Linda couldn't return rather than didn't want to return. I like that Kyle risks everything to rescue Linda, despite the fact that he has to go to the subway to rescue her, which is crowded with people. While this was a modern interpretation, I do think it was a little over-the-top. The criminal tries to rape Linda at the subway, and he threatens Linda and Kyle with a weapon. I'm not sure how realistic this was.

The only problem with including so many of the original plot points is that there wasn't anything unexpected in the book. I guess that's part of the downfall of reading retellings, but I wish Flinn had added a twist somewhere, or something completely new. However, I do think that the inclusion of Kyle chatting to other people, who have been transfigured as well, was a stroke of genius. It's a really clever piece of writing as Flinn subtly brings in several other fairy tale characters, including the Frog from The Frog Prince, the Little Mermaid and the Bear in Snow White and the Red Rose. These scenes were wittily written and cleverly hinted at aspects from the respective fairy tales.

I really liked the blind tutor that is hired to teach Kyle. He was rather comedic and had me laughing out loud a few times, even when I was on a public train :S

Finally, I would like to comment on the romance in the book. I'm not a fan of cheesy, soppy romances. For the most part, the romance aspect was fine, although there were points where it got a little weird for me. People who like books with romance will really enjoy this though.

Final Verdict: I would recommend you read the book rather than watch the movie. If you're a fan of fairy tale retellings, I think you'll really like this book.

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