Welcome to Middleton Prep, a place where fairy tales and modern day collide. Where fair maidens spend their time developing lesson plans and valiant knights do battle with unreliable wifi signals; all in the hopes of finding True Love.
Librarian Piper Belmont’s world turns topsy turvy when new football coach Nash Wilde joins the staff at her school. Tall, dark and handsome, he’s every girl’s dream...until Piper realizes he only speaks in grunts and nods. Determined not to judge a book by its cover, Piper agrees to go out with him.
Just as they are getting to know each other, a family emergency forces Piper to leave town. Will she ever get the chance to learn the secrets behind Nash’s silence? Or will the staff’s reigning beauty queen catch Nash’s interest before Piper gets back?
The Librarian and Her Beast is the first book in the Middleton Prep series. Each book is a stand alone story, but the series is best read in order. Every installment is a loosely based, contemporary retelling of a favorite fairy tale, full of swoon worthy kisses and, of course, a Happily Ever After.
My Take:
It's been a while since I read this one. I really should start reviewing right away but I'll do my best. I remember this one to be cute. A good modernization of Beauty and the Beast. Laura Ann set this series in a school with teacher, which I love! There's even a character that sort of acts as the fairy godmother to all these couples (I think she's an office secretary?) Anyway, she's an awesome character that I kept wanting to learn more about.
Piper and Nash are cute together. I do think Nash should have started talking more as they dated. Real relationships require more than nonverbal communication, even if the nonverbal is wonderful. There is a good reason why Nash doesn't talk a lot but this never would have worked in real life. Good thing I read to escape from real life. ;)
I give this one a Clean and 3.5 rating because I've read other B&B stories that worked better for me. This was still a well written story, just too fantastic for a contemporary retelling.
1-5 scale and what it means:
1: I couldn’t even finish it / just plain bad
2: I hope I didn’t pay for this / disappointing
3: I didn’t hate it, but it was still missing something / forgettable but inoffensive
3.5: On the line between good and ok / like, not love
4: Solid mind candy / worth reading
4.5: So very close to perfection! / must read
5: I could not put it down and I’m still thinking about it! / a true treasure
Movie Ratings in relation to my review:
Clean--Hallmark movies, some kissing, no nudity, no sex on or off "screen"
PG--Some innuendo but nothing kids don't hear every day, sex is all closed door
PG-13--some language (swear words not related to sex), more talk about sex, heavy petting, removal of clothing on screen, but sex is closed door.
PG-14—somewhere between PG-13 and R. Not erotica, but at least a paragraph of on-screen sex
R--swearing (F-bomb, on “screen” sex, sometimes feels like the whole story is about the sex and not the relationship or some other plot, but not always
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