Great retelling of Beauty and the Beast. the characters were enjoyable and fairly true to the Disney movie we love.

There were a few scenes that jarred- one included Belle thinking of Cinderella. How could she know Cinderella but not realize the similarities of her life to Beauty and the Beast? Another was the way in which Gavin is disposed of at the ending. After seeing what his character did in the book, this was too simplistic and not true to his actions in the rest of the story.

But Beast was a wonderful character. I found his "gift" a nice twist as an explananation for his scarring.