Beastly (Kendra Chronicles #1)

Reader reviewed by Suzanne

This book is what they call a modern-day fairytale. A ninth-grade snob, who is treated like a king in his 8th grade class, thinks it's funny to make fun of what he considers "outcasts". Until he messes with the wrong one. After months of searching for a cure, his father gives up on him with embarassment, adn sends him to a private home in Brooklyn. He only has his maid and a blind tutor, who can't judge him by his looks. In order for the curse to expire, he has to fall in love, and so takes a girl from her rocky home life, and gives her shelter. At first they avoid each other, but after awhile, become good friends. After he's learned his lesson, he decides to let her go home, but on the way, she gets abducted. So "The Beast" must find her and convince her to fall in love with him. On his way to save her, she screams that she loves him, and he turns back into Kyle, the regular 8th grade boy. But he has changed inside, and they live happily ever after. I personally felt that the characters were to young for the story. It didn't fit together like is should've.