Shoshanna Evers
Fantasy/Fairytale/Erotica (light BDSM)
Published in 2014
H/h - The Beast (Prince Frederick)/Belle
Setting: Fantasyland.
Read in March, 2014.
My rating:
[spoiler alert]
Beauty and the Beast was my first Shoshanna Evers book, an
erotic re-telling of the fairytale. I was very interested to read this
one because, even though, I had read couple of erotic re-tellings in the
past, none were centered around BDSM. Unfortunately, I was rather
disappointed in this one.
After his father the King’s death, Prince Frederick is cursed by his stepmother, a witch, and transforms into a beast. The price of his freedom is ‘love’; someone will have to fall in love with his hideous beastly form. Thinking all hope is not lost, Frederick runs to his ‘beloved’, Nadine, a village girl, with whom he’d just had a tryst before returning home. But alas, she doesn’t recognize him (his eyes were still Frederick’s very human, very beautiful green eyes) at all. Afterwards, Frederick becomes resigned to his fate and in this hellish living. Frederick/The Beast’s stepmother leaves him in his father’s castle, no one but the castle itself to look after him. He’s abandoned, alone, not knowing if he’ll ever become human again.
After his father the King’s death, Prince Frederick is cursed by his stepmother, a witch, and transforms into a beast. The price of his freedom is ‘love’; someone will have to fall in love with his hideous beastly form. Thinking all hope is not lost, Frederick runs to his ‘beloved’, Nadine, a village girl, with whom he’d just had a tryst before returning home. But alas, she doesn’t recognize him (his eyes were still Frederick’s very human, very beautiful green eyes) at all. Afterwards, Frederick becomes resigned to his fate and in this hellish living. Frederick/The Beast’s stepmother leaves him in his father’s castle, no one but the castle itself to look after him. He’s abandoned, alone, not knowing if he’ll ever become human again.
Then
10 years pass by and a man from the village somehow ends up in his
estate that looks decidedly unkempt but for the pretty red roses. Before
leaving, the man takes some roses for his only daughter, the beautiful
Belle because she loves those. That is when the Beast makes his
appearance, scaring the living daylight out of the man. The Beast keeps
the man trapped inside the castle, but upon hearing of Belle’s name, a
thought occurs to him. Can she become her father’s ‘freedom’? But more
importantly, can she become the ‘freedom’ that the Beast is searching
for in vain?
Belle ends up in the castle after her father is
released by the Beast in exchange of her. She’s scared of the Beast at
first but has to accede to his wishes in order to save her father. She’d
live her 6 months of time, catering to the Beast’s every whim. The
Beast hopes to woo Belle because her beauty has already captured him.
And in doing so, he also hopes, prays that Belle comes to love him too.
As
days pass by, Belle finds a very accommodating, luxurious living inside
her temporary ‘prison’. Her whims are also catered by the Beast. She
gradually begins to get used to the Beast’s appearance, noticing the
softer, gentler side of him. He’s never rude with her, always cautious.
But there’s one thing he demands of her. Being a virgin, Belle only has
some vague idea of what it might be but she’s not sure if she can be
that intimate with the Beast.
In the meantime, the Beast somehow
begins appearing in Belle’s dream as Frederick. It’s a very vivid dream,
and Belle finds herself falling for Frederick seeing him in all his
dazzling good looks. They kiss and touch, but she has no clue that
Frederick is the Beast, someone she has subconsciously started calling
her beast. Belle decides she wants the Beast, as well
as Frederick. But she doesn’t know why Frederick keeps telling her that
she has to love the Beast too. At one point, Belle also finds that she
is ready to be intimate with the Beast, though she’s yet to figure out
the truth.
The Beast is overjoyed, and eager to show her his
kinky ways (aka his preference for bondage). After a few false starts,
spanking sessions and some tears, Belle’s initial fear is won out by her
curiosity to find out the Beast’s... er... ummm, private parts.
I
did have a tough time, even in my utter disbelief, imagining her
accommodating that ‘thing’ cause the Beast was said to have been huge in
stature. I also didn’t find the sex scenes that sexy, maybe this was
one of the reasons why. Apart from this, the stilted,
somewhat awkward dialogue bothered me a lot. The ending was rather nice
but that wasn’t enough for me. 3 stars, could’ve been better IMHO.
Received
a gift copy from Shoshanna Evers as a host for a blog tour (Feb 2014)
without any obligation to review. I’d like to thank her for
it.
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