I think I would have been better off not knowing this book is a Beauty and the Beast retelling. I was too old for the Disney Princesses and not even Anna was into them when she was a kid. In any case, I do like fantasy, especially if I can listen to it, so I borrowed this book from my library.
This book is very popular and I think there are over 100,000 reviews on Goodreads. So do I even need to add my two cents?
Here are my main thoughts:
1. I liked that our MC is a hunter and basically the one keeping her family alive at the beginning. She has skills and isn't afraid to work hard and she knows adversity.
2. This book is long and takes a good long while to get going.
3. The romance fell flat for me and the actual love scenes were very fleeting.
4. My favorite characters were Lucien, Rhysand, and Feyre's sister Nesta.
Overall I enjoyed listening to the book. I didn't really like what happens to Feyre at the end, as far as her leveling up so to speak -- I don't want to spoil anything. And I would like to know if I would get more of Lucien's POV in book two? I don't really care all that much about Feyre or Tamlin. So I'm not sure if I will read more.
I googled to double-check the spelling of Nesta's name for this post since I had only listened to the audio, and when I did the first thing listed was a spoiler for her story. BOOO Google.
My rating is 3.5
If you have read this series, please let me know what you thought of the second book!
