Beastly by Alex Flinn

My theme for february was Romance, so I picked this modern retelling of one of my favorite romantic fairy tales. Beastly tells the story of a witch and two high school kids in New York City. It would have been an interesting read if I was a teenage girl, so I should have known better.

Once I read a different retelling of Beauty and the Beast. I'd found it at the Sertoma Thrift Store in Saint Augustine, 2008. In this other retelling, our protagonist had sex with the beast, who was very dog like and smoked cigarettes. Someday, I'll find it and read it again. Beastly was probably a waste of time, but that's how it goes sometimes when you're trying to read a hundred books in a year.