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. Do you know anyone who’s that beautiful? What happened to them? (This is a cue to let the conversation wander where it will…here’s my final question: Are you sure there wasn’t a nose job involved?).Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne is a Beauty. In fact, she doesn’t have any female friends, and the moment she’s suspected of being unchaste, the ton turns on her as if she were a smoker lighting up in church. Linnet is the heroine of a fairy tale-so naturally she’s as beautiful as the sun and the moon.
I’m not sure what question to ask here, but if anyone wants to talk about how parents can mess up a good marriage, feel free to leap in. Neither of these lessons was easily learned. If I had to nail down two things that were absolutely essential to the hero and heroine actually surviving marriage together, it would be that Piers had to reconcile with his father, and Linnet had to understand that Piers loved her for more than her beauty. This novel goes in a lot of different directions. Then have another drink and get down to brass tacks: so, who has had a run-in with an impotent man? All details welcome. First, agree among yourselves that I did a clever job of shifting the whole question of superficial beauty to deeper questions of the body. But Linnet and Piers are telling lies that aren’t exactly flattering: Linnet is claiming to be pregnant, and Piers is boasting of impotence.
That’s not exactly abnormal-I had my future husband convinced that I was sweet, supportive, and a fabulous cook (I learned a lot from watching soaps). At the beginning of When Beauty Tames the Beast, neither Linnet nor Piers is strictly truthful with each other.
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