Welcome back to Goodreads Monday! Goodreads Monday was hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners. It’s now hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. All you have to do is show off a book from your TBR that you’re looking forward to reading.
I am going to be going through my TBR on Goodreads because it is filled with books that need to be removed and ones that will likely be added. That being said, we may begin down the TBR hole on Thursdays. Let me know if you’d be interested in following along by commenting below.
Beastly Beauty 
Author: Jennifer Donnelly
Published: MAy 7th 2024
Book Length: 336 Pages
Genre: Fantasy, YA, Romance, Retelling
Buy the Book: Amazon, Barnes & Noble
From New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Donnelly comes a revolutionary, gender-swapped retelling of Beauty and the Beast that will forever change how you think about beauty, power, and what it really means to follow your heart. What makes a girl “beastly?” Is it having too much ambition? Being too proud? Taking up too much space? Or is it just wanting something, anything , too badly? That’s the problem Arabella faces when she makes her debut in society. Her parents want her to be sweet and compliant so she can marry well, but try as she might, Arabella can’t extinguish the fire burning inside her — the source of her deepest wishes, her wildest dreams. When an attempt to suppress her emotions tragically backfires, a mysterious figure punishes Arabella with a curse, dooming her and everyone she cares about, trapping them in the castle. As the years pass, Arabella abandons hope. The curse is her fault — after all, there’s nothing more “beastly” than a girl who expresses her anger — and the only way to break it is to find a boy who loves her for her true a cruel task for a girl who’s been told she’s impossible to love. When a handsome thief named Beau makes his way into the castle, the captive servants are thrilled, convinced he is the one to break the curse. But Beau — spooked by the castle’s strange and forbidding ladies-in-waiting, and by the malevolent presence that stalks its corridors at night — only wants to escape. He learned long ago that love is only an illusion. If Beau and Arabella have any hope of breaking the curse, they must learn to trust their wounded hearts, and realize that the cruelest prisons of all are the ones we build for ourselves.
I know so many people who sound similar to the main character—their parents want them to be something they aren’t. I am excited about this, as I won an ARC in a Goodreads Giveaway! Besides, it is a Beauty and the Beast retelling, and we all know that it is my favorite fairy tale.
What do you think? Is this something you are looking forward to? Have you heard of the book or read it already? Let me know in the comments below!
Disclaimer: This post may contain affiliate links.