Beastly

BOOK BLOG #4  Beastly by Alex Flinn

Premise

 Life is perfect for Mr. Kyle Kingbury. He was popular, he was beautiful, he had the prettiest girlfriend he had the money, he had everything. Until the day he was snotty to the wrong girl... or should I say witch. Kendra is this witch who's been watching him. 

WHAT I JUST READ

           While filling out ballots for prom king and queen, Kyle sees Kendra to him she's ugly fat gross. She has green hair and a bigger figure, not traditionally pretty. Kendra speaks up to Kyle and he doesn't like what he hears. As a prank Kyle asks Kendra to the dance. He acts all the parts getting a flower asking what color tie he should wear ect. Instead of meeting her at the dance he brings his girlfriend, Sloane Hagen, he thinks this is gonna be the perfect prank to embarass her after she told him all those things about how he only was popular because of his looks and money and power. Only when he pulls the prank on her she's not embarassed and crying like he thought. Kendra threatens him and later shows up at his house. 

           She turns him into what he truly is, Beastly. He is a monster, hairs sprouting from every pore of his body. The only way to get back to his old self is to get a kiss from someone he truly loves, and he only has two years to do it. His father thinks its a medical thing that can be fixed with procedures and money. Rob Kingsbury is far from right. Rob is Kyles father, and a news anchor who is obsessed with himself, and his job. He sends Kyle off to a mansion in Brooklyn with the maid because he's afraid that people will find out about the monstrosity of his son and fire him. It's an old house tinted windows curtains on everyone. A tall gate around the yard, and surveillance equipment every where. 

       Once Kyle settles down a bit he goes onto the internet and stumbles across a chat room for people who have transformed, or experienced unexpected changes. Kyle (BeastNYC) meets SilentMaid a mermaid who is deciding whether or not she should become human to meet the love of her life with a couple side-effects, Froggie a prince who ticked off a witch and became a frog, and finally Grizzlyguy who also ticked off a witch. They help him in this difficult time and support him.

  Kyle plants a rose garden with his tutor Will who is blind. His father hired Will because Kyle wanted a tutor, and he was blind so he couldn't see Kyle's hideousness. They become close friends. By the way Kendra gave Kyle a mirror a magic mirror and Kyle can talk to her. Kyle and Kedra have this kind of love-hate relationship where they are kind of friends but Kyle gets angry all the time at her because she can't take away the spell only he can by breaking it. Well Kyle makes a negotiation with Kendra if he can break the spell before the two years are up then Will can have his sight back and Magda (the maid) can go back to her family. She agrees. 

 Kyle can see anyone he wants with the mirror. He looks at his old friends and people from his school. One day he looks at Linda, the girl he gave a white rose to at the dance because Sloane wouldn't wear it and he didn't want it to go to waste. She had orange hair and lots of freckles pale skin too. She was petite and average looking. Linda was a scholarship student at Kyle's old school Tuttle. He kept going back and watching her. She read a lot and lived in a crumby house with a druggie as a father.

One night somebody breaks into his greenhouse/place with all of his roses. The guy is obviously a duggie. Kyle scares the guy half to death and the guy offers up his daughter. Sure enough his daughter is Linda. Kyle pretty much keeps Lindy/Linda prisoner but they become best friends.

Can their love be enough to save Kyle? Can she save him in time or will he be stuck like this forever? Find out in Beastly.