Thank you Tokyopop and Diamond Book Distributors for providing me a free ARC of this book via NetGalley

My rating: 3.5/5 stars

Ahh.. this was beautiful. This was my first ever Manga read and I didn't knew this before picking this up. Obviously I didn't knew beforehand about manga so I had some trouble reading it at first. But after some research, I was on track, and oh boy it was exactly as the movie (minus songs and detailed graphics). I would strongly recommend to read this only if you have watched the Disney's new Beauty and the Beast movie (released in 2017), otherwise you might miss the charm of it.

The story is the classic beauty and the beast so nothing new at that front. This is a two books series. This book is from the Belle's POV while the other is from Beast's POV (which I am still to read). It was refreshing to read the story through Belle's mind.

The illustrations in the book were beautiful. They were so close to the movie. I liked the illustrated beast very much and the library was beautiful. There were some illustrations that were not much clear. Some scenes just jumped to other, which is difficult to understand if you haven't already watched the movie. But most of the art is good. This was a quick read and I finished it in just an hour.

"Happily ever after" is a story, itself.
It's a choice, everyday, to be the best person you can be.
To turn your anger into passion.... To bring change, not destruction.
To find beauty in love and understanding...
...And to find "Home"... wherever you go.

I highly recommend it to all the Beauty and the Beast lovers out there :)

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