The performance is too much and too put on to make the characters feel as themselves rather than just accents. La trama es muy ágil, debido a que el libro es cortito, y las escenas de acción me parecieron super bien trabajadas. Beauty enters a decrepit old castle, gets scared by the Beast in the dark when he reveals himself, immediately gets locked in a bedroom in the opposite wing. I've previously read a fair share of Ben's books and was looking forward to enjoying them in an audiobook form however the narration does not work with the story.

I wasn’t like anyone else, and while I didn’t want to be like anyone else, it was still an isolating feeling. The new fees system also charges readers more to pay authors less, which is corporate greed at its finest. En fin, este pequeño librito llegó en el momento indicado y me dio justo lo que necesitaba cuando lo leí. I don't think it was the author's intention to create some grand earth- shattering love story here, so I take it for what it is, and what it is, is a perfectly acceptable little escape.I find Ben Anderson does a good job of blending new and old together to craft a story that has similar beats to the original story while being something different.

Also, there’s a huge difference in someone being 12” than you compared to 24”… so to say “he towered over me by a foot, or two” leaves me with little faith that the author would accurately depict size differences in this book. I think this book either should've been longer or just spent a little more time in the editing stage because things come up or happen in this book that feel important but just aren't. Speaking of Claims, the Claims aren't really explained: why does the town need Claims if the castle is sealed and Marius can't leave? This is clearly not the fault of the narrator I just don't think the sound of his voice worked for the content. However the witch's curse also backfired, draining the magic from the coven down to a negligible level from then on.This is just something you have to get used to in the book, which admittedly gets easier the further in you go, because if nothing else it wears you down so much that you just accept your fate in this prose and syntax hellscape. There's also a lot of talk about the town Jak comes from and his coven but no real story behind it, it's just kinda thrown in as "worldbuilding" and then expects you to care. I have been excited to read this since the author first mentioned he was writing and releasing this book this year.

maybe if more work was put into this, it could have been better, but the entirety of this book honestly just felt like a bad first draft. Or perhaps this is meant to say that Jak visualizing then executing is his personal style to cast the spell, like that's special to him. Grief is like a silent assassin, lurking in the dark of one’s soul, ready to cloak any light in shadow. It had a nice play on traditional vampire tropes without naming them directly and the constant power shift between the two main characters is refreshing and kept me intrigued. Side from running his very own micro-publishing company, Oftomes, you can find Ben in the nearest Starbucks with a book in hand.Nothing about the traditional Claiming is explained outside of once a year some unlucky townsperson gets sent to the castle to die. This is one sexy fantasy and it does not disappoint with worldbuilding, character development, and twists! Jak is not very likeable, though he has zero personality, so I would be surprised if any reader was able to muster any emotion towards him. narfna on “What the stories never said: at the end of the day, if a man wants to kill you, he kills you.

El libro por dentro es un retelling de La Bella y la Bestia porque mantiene todos los elementos: una bestia confinada en un castillo por una maldición, luego viene (en este caso) un chico a darle fin y dentro del castillo pues hay presencias y toques fantásticos que le dan su personalidad. En este caso, la bestia es un vampiro y Jak, el personaje de la Bella, es un brujo con la misión de matarlo. Why wouldn't you just condense this to say, "You are permitted to choose two of the items we have prepared for you," or something to that effect? But as Jak grows closer to his goal and learns more about his target, he can't help but feel drawn to the man behind the monster. not every steamy fantasy novel needs to be 12+ hours but this is an instance where it’s lacking quite a bit of the important elements.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).