Beauty and the Werewolf is a Folklore novel by Mercedes Lackey. Read summary below.
Beauty and the Werewolf (A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms) Summary
The eldest daughter is often doomed in fairy tales. But Bella—Isabella Beauchamps, daughter of a wealthy merchant—vows to escape the usual pitfalls.
Anxious to avoid the traditional path, Bella dons a red cloak and ventures into the forbidden forest to consult with “Granny,” the local wisewoman. But on the way home she’s attacked by a wolf—who turns out to be a cursed nobleman. Secluded in his castle, Bella is torn between her family and this strange man who creates marvelous inventions and makes her laugh—when he isn’t howling at the moon.
Bella knows all too well that breaking spells is never easy. But a determined beauty, a wizard (after all, he’s only an occasional werewolf) and a little Godmotherly interference might just be able to bring about a happy ending.
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Beauty and the Werewolf (A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms) Review
4.0 out of 5 stars Beauty’s Almost More Beastly Than The Beast
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2013
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3.5 stars. The story starts as a mash-up between Beauty and The Beast and Little Red Riding Hood, with a few elements from Cinderella sprinkled in.
Bella is on her way to visit Granny, the area’s Herb Woman. She’s wearing her father’s old hunting cloak, because it’s warm, and because it’s bright red, and she has no desire to be mistaken for a deer and shot as she passes through the woods. Still, she is waylaid and threatened by a rather beastly man on the way to Granny’s. After blowing off steam with Granny and figuring out a course of action to pay the man back, she enjoys her time with the wisewoman. When she leaves Granny’s cottage, it’s late, but she’s taken this path before, at this time, and there’s a full moon rising.
Cue the Big Bad Wolf. Bella manages to evade him, to arm herself with a stout tree branch, and to find a rock against which she can defend herself. Still, she manages to get bitten. Upon reaching home, she receives medical attention from one of her stepmother’s doctors. In the morning, she is basically arrested and hauled off to be incarcerated in Duke Sebastian’s manor, until it can be established she will not also “turn” at the time of the full moon.
I liked that in his human skin, Duke Sebastian was a young, shy, bespectacled wizard. He seemed about as un-scary a creature as possible, when not howling at the moon. Bella, on the other hand, came off a bit overbearing. She was nice to the servants, to her younger stepsisters, but that seemed to be because she dominated them. Granted, I probably would have an attitude too, if somebody bit me, and then I had to be quarantined, but she comes off more than a bit abrasive towards Sebastian in the beginning, and it seems that she flips to falling in love with him a bit suddenly.
The bad guy does everything but don a T-shirt saying, “I’m the bad guy.” Seems like everybody should have been saying, “It’s him, it’s him,” and then something throws them off and they felt guilty about it; instead it was like the elephant in the room.
I do like the way in all Lackey’s romances, it’s not the hero saving the heroine, or vice versa, but both of them saving each other. I loved the invisible servants and the skill in how Lackey can make a scrap of ribbon able to convey human emotion. And the humor, there’s always a great deal of humor in her stories.
I liked this book, but I didn’t love it.
About Mercedes Lackey Author Of Beauty and the Werewolf (A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms) Book
Mercedes Lackey Author Of Beauty and the Werewolf (A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms) Book, She is the acclaimed author of over fifty novels and many works of short fiction. In her “spare” time she is also a professional lyricist and a licensed wild bird rehabilitator. Mercedes lives in Oklahoma with her husband and frequent collaborator, artist Larry Dixon, and their flock of parrots.
Beauty and the Werewolf (A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms) pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Luna; First Time Paperback edition (May 29, 2012)
- Language : English
- Mass Market Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 037380346X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0373803460
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 4.22 x 1.12 x 6.61 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #798,111 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #8,143 in Folklore (Books)
- #14,680 in Romantic Fantasy (Books)
- #16,005 in Fantasy Romance (Books)
- Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars 418 ratings
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