This is a spoiler-free review! The Beast is currently available for free on iBooks and Kindle. You can read my review of The Scottish Billionaire on my blog, here.
My immediate first thought about this book was that it sounded like a modern day spin on Beauty and the Beast only in the aspect that that main male lead was giving off major Beast vibes, and I knew I had to read it. The cover also reminded me of Praise by Sara Cate, and it sucked me right in. I have not read a single father romance in, well, I cannot even remember if I ever did, and this seemed like the perfect book to start on that journey.
Keir and Ella are basically at each other's throats for the majority of this book, giving us some great bantering and a dash of enemies to lovers mixed in with their actual feelings. With Keir being so secretive towards Ella when it comes to a lot of personal and business matters, it leaves them constantly in this power struggle to get information out of one another.
I absolutely cannot stand Ella's family sans her younger sister. In The Scottish Billionaire you get a pretty good read on who they are as people and where their morals lie, and in this installment we see how much they have manipulated situations to be in their favor. The same goes for Keir's parents -- they are so controlling over their children and seem to want to make every decision for them, rather than have their children grow as individuals.
There was a lot of back and forth throughout the book -- at times, it felt very repetitive that Keir and Ella were having the same arguments or interactions, or that Ella was constantly thinking about the same thing over and over again, going on for chapters at a time. I think if they were both given some more character development, I would have enjoyed reading their perspectives, but I kept finding myself wanting to be done with the book rather than actually interested in what was going to happen between them.
I will say that the smut scenes were pretty good and are part of the reason on why I am rating this book higher than I normally would. They were the redeeming part of the book -- otherwise, the flow of the story was off and ending on a big cliffhanger felt like a quick way to end the book without actually wrapping anything up. It was difficult to navigate some of the story since I would spend every chapter having to figure out which POV we were reading, in addition to the jumping around doing different things. There definitely could have been more time spent building upon Keir and Ella's relationship and personal issues, which would have made their characters more enjoyable on their own.
It would have been a very quick read if I did not have to keep taking breaks because I could not get into the story or find myself liking a majority of the characters. If you are looking for lots of drama and smut, this would fill the slot, but would leave you unsatisfied if looking for something with just a little more meat on its bones.
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