She works hard for her demanding boss, but never really gets any feedback or praise from Marta, and Marta’s former assistant, Gavin, doesn’t seem to think she has any real talent when it comes to writing. Isabelle Marlowe is an editorial assistant to Marta Wallace, a top editor at Tale as Old as Time Publishing. Overall, this was a sweet romance with some fun nods to the movie. The setting in Santa Barbara wasn’t quite what I was hoping for as I’m a native of LA County a couple of hours south, but I am glad the beach and some California culture made it in. Izzy and Beau were very cute and sweet together, but sometimes they just had a little too much in common for me to believe it. I did like that it didn’t strictly adhere to the confines of the movie so it could take a life of it’s own. The parallels are strong during the first half of the book, but, during the second half, it felt more like a romance with some fun nods to the movie. Overallīy the Book is a contemporary re-imagining of Disney’s classic Beauty and the Beast. One Sentence Summary: In this contemporary re-imagining of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, editorial assistant Izzy finds herself helping the mean and rude celebrity Beau Towers write his memoir.
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