![]() ![]() ![]() In a Victorian Beauty and the Beast retelling. Until a careless comment by a potential suitor, a prince, causes the Ton gossip scene into overdrive and poor, virginal Linnet's five months pregnant in everyone's eyes by the end of the ball. Linnet, despite being the most beautiful woman on the face of the Earth, has to work twice as hard to ensure her virtue because of this. ![]() Linnet's mother was light with her favors and died en-route to one of her many lovers. There is too much plot to the book, firstly. It shares similarities to the rest of the series: an overstuffed, farcical set-up akin to A Kiss at Midnight and a sarcastic, anachronistic heroine like The Duke is Mine, but where I found both of the other books charming, I found these quirks annoying in WBTtB. James' fairy tale retellings, When Beauty Tamed the Beast is a miss. what price will she pay for taming his wild heart?Īs far as Ms. Yet Linnet has no idea of the danger posed to her own heart by a man who may never love her in return. She estimates the earl will fall madly in love-in just two weeks. She is more than merely lovely: her wit and charm brought a prince to his knees. And rumor also has it that a wound has left the earl immune to the charms of any woman. Piers Yelverton, Earl of Marchant, lives in a castle in Wales where, it is rumored, his bad temper flays everyone he crosses. ![]()
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