I had to ignore the sudden, brain-fogging desire to drop down right now and spread my legs, begging to be taken. I doubted anyone would chase a scrappy little shifter who couldn’t shift, not with the monstrous melee going on behind me.

The regular use of the c bomb is a huge turn off for me and the sudden urge the characters seemed to have to talk dirty in the middle of other issues was a bit jolting.

The one that appears just after the blurb (which I have, as is custom, put below with the book description – the bold and red are mine): “ This is a dark and sexy Beauty and the Beast retelling, featuring a strong heroine, a dangerous anti-hero, and a humorous supporting cast. Most of the nobility had been killed soon after the mad king perished, but the everlass remained unscathed.

It was unclear if people were punished, hanged, or eaten by the beast or one of the other creatures, but in those early days, anyone who ventured in never came back. While I did want to study up on that damn birch, and the author had written these delightful asides about poisonous mushrooms and other poisons found in nature, I didn’t have the brain capacity right now.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.