The Beast's Heart

I realized I'm not super familiar with the original tale but this kept slowly veering between “so he's cursed because he's bordering on being an incel who can't handle being friends” and some brief moments showing there's more to him so he's a cultured incel. Frustrating.

I like slow burn stories, but this was a lot more of a ‘you're not giving reasons she should ever want to say yes.' This was just gross. 

(A day later, this is still bugging me and I cut my rating in half - because it's even worse, he's steadily spying on her sisters' suitors as they are actually learning about the women's interests and legitimately earning their trust and respect and realizing that they'd be able to be content just being friends and respecting an answer of no, if that's what the sisters answer...  and the IncelBeast recognizes that that's what they're doing and cheers them on, and yet he repeatedly chooses to just not try that. He cannot possibly accept just being her friend. Incelish-Beast.)