Briarley

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A sweet, chaste m/m retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Zero steam. It's quite short – I was able to read it in a manner of hours. I don't think it needed to be any longer, either. There is minimal character development, but it isn't really needed for the type of story that this one is. I enjoyed it, but I'm not sure that I'll ever pick it up again. It did what it needed to do, and there isn't much replay value for me here.

The romance itself was only minorly believable – it seems that one day they just sort of...decide to love each other? There was minimal courting, and almost no tension at all. As for the Beauty and the Beast bits – it has an enchanted manor, rose, invisible servants, and of course, the beast himself. This ‘beast' is actually a man cursed to be a dragon. That was very original, and I did enjoy that bit. There just wasn't much character to go on here. The parson had more to him, but by the end of the book we don't know much about Briarly at all.

Overall, this one was just sort of meh?