• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Love In Grace

Saying Yes to Life

  • Home
  • About Me
    • My Brownstone
    • Xenia’s Life List
  • Books
  • Movies
  • Heritage
  • Interior
  • Links
    • Delicious

Beauty & The Beast: Lost In A Book

04/16/2017 by LoveInGrace Leave a Comment

I was inspired to purchase this book after watching a You Tube video from one of my favorite You Tube channels called Paper & Glam.  I ordered Beauty & The Beast, Lost In A Book, by Jennifer Donnelly on Amazon.  I was excited to begin reading it because I absolutely love the Beauty and the Beast story.  I looked forward to the author’s rendition of it.  The reviews on Amazon and Goodreads are mostly very high ranking, so I felt confident that I would love this story.

I was immediately drawn into the book as I begin to read.  However, it was not too long before I started to consider Belle to be one of the most selfish and stupid heroines I ever read about.  Spoiler Alert ahead.  The Beast specifically informed Belle that some of the books in his library were enchanted.  Some of the enchanted books were okay and others were not.  Why in heavens name would anyone with any sense walk into an enchanted book without knowing if it is one of the good ones or not.  If that was not bad enough, Belle does so without telling anyone what she was doing.  How could Belle know she would even be able to return the first time she walked into Nevermore?

As the story progresses, Belle’s sixth sense tries to warn her about getting sucked into Nevermore, but she completely ignores every single warning, and continues to entertain her human selfishness.   Why didn’t she even question a book with the title, Nevermore?  Why would vultures be so prominent in the story, or a creepy person such a Mouchard?  Why would the Countess always be dressed like a widow if she was supposed to be a fairy godmother figure?  Why was it so difficult for Belle to go through the portal every time she was trying to get back to the Beasts’ castle.  These and many other obvious oddities Belle did not spend any significant time thinking through.  She simply dismissed them within seconds and carried on with her one track mind.

The book does contain some important messages that are quite spiritual in a metaphysical sense.  It is important to write your own story for your own life.  We are the architects of our own lives, so do not give your power away to others.  The story also illustrates how strong love is and how it can move mountains.   Additionally, love is often right before our eyes in the most, so called, mundane.  All that glitters is not always gold.

Even though this book was disappointing for me, I would still love to read other renditions of Beauty and the Beast.  Maybe I will make some time to write my own rendition.

Recommended Posts

  • BelleBelle
  • Hearts WestHearts West
  • Beauty & The Beast, A NovelizationBeauty & The Beast, A Novelization
  • The Spinster & The BeastThe Spinster & The Beast

Share this:

  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Filed Under: Books, History

« No Such Thing As Luck: A North & South Variation
Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie »

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Primary Sidebar

Welcome to Love In Grace. My name is Xenia, and I am so glad that you stopped by. Please make yourself comfortable, and I hope that you enjoy your stay. Read More…

Search

Follow

Subscribe to Blog via Email

"I am going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life" - Elsie de Wolfe

Top Posts & Pages

About Me
Pride & Prejudice - 1995
African Faces Of The Renaissance
Jean-Etienne Liotard: Portrait Of A Young Woman
Pennsylvania Railroad Station
Jax And Brenda's Love Story
Brown Madonna And Child:1930
White Cherry Blossom Tree Painting

Recent Posts

  • Strong Women
  • Updated House Tour 2018
  • House Selling Nightmare
  • Letting Go Of Books
  • North and South
  • A Dinner of Herbs

Copyright © 2019 · Foodie Pro Theme by Shay Bocks · Built on the Genesis Framework · Powered by WordPress