When beauty tamed the beast by Eloisa James

Summary: If only Miss Linnet Berry Thrynne hadn't caught kissing that Prince ... But now believes ton Linnet with Royal child-and therefore unmarriageable-so they could make her happy too desperate father by agreeing to wed a beast.
A brilliant surgeon with a reputation for losing his temper and a wound believed to have left him ... unable-Piers, Earl of Marchant, should welcome a bride wear a ready-made, blue-blooded heir. But Piers is not fooled by the fallacies of the Lady, and all Linnet Devils smart and beautiful, there will be no marriage of beauty to beast.

Linnet still finds, the beautiful brute intriguing. And it is clear to the naked eye that ' unable ' does not mean ' uninterested ' ...

So I think this is my favorite of Eloisa James ' fairytale stories so far (I have read 3? Maybe 4?), I loved it.
This is one of those rare romances where I really love the couple together. Sometimes with books like this, I want them the main characters to end up together purely because that is what is expected in a novel romance, but in these the characters actually made sense together.

They were funny and sweet and brought out the best in each other. It was not a case of insta-love or insta-lust, I was fully convinced that they were in love with each other and we don't only told were shown. Their characters just compliment each other perfectly. And I really, really loved that.

I also just found the characters individually. Both had their moments of his ridiculous, but they were funny and intelligent and flawed in a way that was never annoying--he was grumpy and stubborn and also brutally honest sometimes and they would be very vain, and it is so easy for this to make their characters unlikeable personality traits would be, but it was just performed really well and I found them both from start to finish. I really loved the characters that part as well.

As for the plot ... Well, beauty and the beast is one of my favorite fairy tales, and this is one of my favorite stories of it. And the way it happens in this story not Stockholm syndrome aspect to it that it could be argued some of the other versions have going on.

And that's all I should really say. If you like beauty and the beast Type stories, or Regency romance stories, then check these out.

Later.

PS I think I can get from my reading slump now that summer is that past--this is the 5th book, I have read and reviewed this week and I have already started with another (not that anyone is supposed to really care, but it makes me feel all YAY-ish, so ... yes).

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