Access Instantly When Beauty Tamed The Beast (Fairy Tales, #2) Fashioned By Eloisa James Provided As Paper Edition

book was absolutely fabulous in the beginning! I loved the banter and I loved the characters, Linnet was such a great heroine and I adored her willingness to go toe to toe with the beast of a doctor, Piers.
I've heard that the author modeled the hero after Dr, House, and it must be true because the similarities are quite obvious, That's all right though because I've always enjoyed House, He's an ass, yes, but he is also strangely nice and oddly charming, So it's no surprise that I loved Piers too,

I loved the playfulness between Linnet and Piers, They actually became friends in this book which is something I treasure in my romances, The humor was spot on as well, Just like in the last fairytale style book Eloisa James wrote this one has a bit of a farcical feel to it, I saw shades of my favorite couple by this author in the beginning at least when Piers and Linnet decided to play and tease each other.
It was sexy and fun and I felt they fit together well,

I really liked the side bits we got of Piers's mother and father, The revelations we had about their past and the reason Piers disliked his father is heartbreaking, I think the author was smart to show his pov because otherwise it would have been harder to forgive him for his mistakes.


So why isn't this astar Because the book went down the drain toward the end, The conflict at the end seemed to come out of nowhere and I felt that forgiveness came way too easily, It was like so many other issues cropped up after that scene that the actual original conflict wasn't given more than a token apology.
I wasn't enraged when it ended, but I was still miffed and I felt that things were solved too easily, It actually bothered me so much that it took the grade down to a very lowstars, I debated going into thestar range, but I enjoyed the first/of the book too much to do that,

I'm still looking forward to the next fairytale themed book, but I hope that one stays good throughout instead of turning lame at the end.


Also, I was really bothered by the way it seemed like Linnet needed to be brought down a peg before she could be with Piers.
What was up with that This is the Historical Romance for those who are bored with the standard or the norm, Different type of hero, and a great heroine, I loved the story. . up til the end the ending ruined it for me,

The opening scene of this book is hysterical, Our heroine Linnet has just been ruined, Why is this funny There were a couple factors in her being shunned from the ton but the biggie was her new gown.
It's this fabulous new frilly ballgown, . . that makes her look pregnant!!! Combine that with her absolutely gorgeous face, her large bosom, her mother's reputation, and being seen kissing a prince, she's ruined.


Her father and her aunt felt it was her beauty, She got it from her mother, Rosalyn, who was never faithful, . . or discreet.

"I've been a model of chastity this season, In fact, through my entire life!"
Her father frowned, "It's just that there's something about you"
"You look naughty," her aunt said, not unkindly, "God help Rosalyn, but this is all her fault, She gave it to you, That dimple, and something in your eyes and about your mouth, You look like a wanton, "

The first chapter had me smiling like crazy at how witty Linnet is, and how witty the author Eloisa James is.
This is part of her series that had A Kiss at Midnight and Storming the Castle, For me, both of those werestar reads,

Then we meet Dr, House, er, I mean, Piers, Piers is a doctor in Wales who is just brilliant, But he's kind of an ass, At first I didn't mind his arrogance, his gruff personality, his whole demeanor, It worked.

His father, the duke, sprung a fiance on him, though, and Piers went out of his way to make her miserable.
. . but Linnet didn't scare easily, Mind you, she's just been sent to Wales, after being shunned from the only society she's ever known, And the way she handled Piers was fantastic, I adored her. Usually

super gorgeous heroines who know they are beautiful are just either idiotic TSTL silly chits, or they are just plain irritating, Linnet was none of that, She was a fabulous heroine, Eloisa James writes wonderful heroines,

That being said, I may rant a bit,

Piers and Linnet were engaged because Linnet was supposedly pregnant, and Piers was supposedly impotent, The duke wanted an heir, . . voila! A foolproof plan. Right


SPOILER AHEAD, but I can't continue without telling it









Piers wasn't impotent.
We know Linnet isn't pregnant,

They start having sex, Lots of it, and all the time, I liked the personality change that Piers went throughhe stayed true to himself by which I mean he was still an ass but we got to see the inner hero material in him.


Too bad he didn't stay that way, He was suddenly inundated by villagers who had Scarlet Fever, It becomes an epidemic. Villages are warned and Piers' solution to keeping Linnet from contracting the disease is to drive her away so she'll leave the infected village, So he tells her some really incredibly UNFORGIVABLY horrible things, Linnet finally tells him she loves him, and this is his answer:

"For God's sake, have you no dignity I tupped you and we were good together.
But you're not the first and you won't be the last, "

As if that isn't bad enough, Linnet gets Scarlet Fever, ahem, duhshe was at ground zero of the epidemic!

And he's sent her away, Alone. And she ends up unable to speak to tell the innkeepers what's wrong, . . so they steal her clothes, carriage, horses, and whatever else their sticky little fingers can find,

And they put linnet in an old chicken coop, No, really.

And His Assholiness Dr, Piers Yelverton is able to come to her rescue, He was awful to her, Pages of him rejecting her, And then he gets to come in and play hero I was pissed, but I handled it, deep breaths, right And Piers really did go through hell to keep Linnet alive, And he does keep her alive, . . at the expense of her hairhe chopped it off rather than wash the chicken poo out of it, even though he washed her body.
Okay, that was a bit harshwhat did Linnet do to deserve that Then after days, she did pull through, but anyone who's seen Scarlet Fever knows it turns the skin red a friend of mine in high school had itshe was out forweeks! I could only imagine thatyears ago.
So Linnet's skin is scaley and scabby and red and peeling, She feels that if Piers rejected her when she was beautiful, he won't want her now that she's lost her beautyshe thinks forever.
She refuses to see Piers because she doesn't want to see pity in his eyes, He believed she lost faith in him, in his feelings for her, . . He freaking rejected her!!! She thinks he loves her, but i'm curious how she knew it, As you can tell, this is where the book fell apart for me,

He continued to be an ass to Linnet, who took him back, . . healed and didn't loose her beauty, and they lived happily ever after, with an epilogue.

I'm still pissed,

sitelink demonloversbooksandmore. co If you like Dr House in TV, you'll probably enjoy this book too, The hero is exactly like House, the same aching leg and dry wit that drives some people insane and some women like flies to honey: I belong to the second group because honestly I think there is nothing sexier than a man with brains, provided that he's not only using his wits to laugh at others, but also to laugh at himself.


I also liked the heroine a lot, Linnet was as sarcastic and intelligent as House Piers himself, thus resulting in many humorous dialogues that had me laughing out loud all the time.
And then, as the end neared the tone of the book changed, It became more emotional, angsty even, as misunderstandings and selfdenials threatened to tear those two apart, I understand why many people didn't like this turn of events, but being a lover of angsty romances mostly, it only made me appreciate the book more.


I definitely think the hype about this book is worth it after all:,