Beastly

By the title alone you can tell that this is a story that is kind of like Beauty and the Beast. Actually, it's a LOT like that. The main difference is that the "Beast" Kyle Kingsbury, is a teenager, not a prince, and a much bigger snob then the original Beast was. Kyle Kingsbury invites a homely looking girl to the dance at his school even though he already has a date, just to make fun of her. His first date demands an orchid as her corsage, while the other girl wants a plain white rose. Kyle's maid Magda gets him a white rose and while at the dance his first date, Sloane doesn't accept the rose, he instead gives it to the girl sitting taking tickets as an act of kindness. Since two petals had fallen off the rose the homely looking girl who is actually quite beautiful, and a witch, she agrees to give him two years to fall in love with a girl and have her love him back and kiss him in order to break the spell and make him into himself again. The biggest difference that I noticed was that the girl in the story didn't really come in until nearly the end of the story. More then 150 pages pass before Kyle, now calling himself Adrian, has the girl come live with him. Other then that this story is pretty much just like the original Beauty and the Beast. Adrian/Kyle even has two people living with him, Will and Magda, who could represent characters from the original story. Will happens to be Kyle's blind Tutor and Magda does all the cooking and cleaning. He even has a magic mirror that allows him to see whoever he wants too. So with that, overall grade...B-