Kendra casts a spell that turns Kyle into a beast with fur, fangs and claws (see Jean Cocteau’s movie La Belle et La Bete to see how the author envisioned him – it’s not at all like how he is in the movie). When he plays a nasty prank on Kendra, a goth girl, she reveals herself as a witch. Kyle is gorgeous on the outside, but inside he is a very ugly young man. He goes to an exclusive private school, he dates the hottest chick there, and his newscaster father showers him with every material possession he could want. It’s set in contemporary New York and we see the story from the Beast’s point of view. Beastly is a young adult novel that follows the classic tale fairly closely. The roots of the story go back to the Greek myth of Cupid and Psyche, and it has furnished the plot for many romance novels – Ravished by Amanda Quick and Mary Jo Putney’s short story, The Black Beast of Belleterre are two of my favorites.
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