Book Review for "Lost in a Book" by Jennifer Donnelly

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Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book




My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Publisher: Disney Press; Dlx Org edition (January 31, 2017)
 ISBN 1484780981


Death and Love have a bet.

Love bets that Belle will win the Beast's heart and that she will fall in love with him in return.
Death bets that the Beast will fail.
To ensure her victory, Death inserts a magical book into the Beast's Library, a place Belle has fallen in love with, a book called "Nevermore".
"Nevermore" isn't an ordinary book. It is alive in every sense of the word, writing the story that its reader has always wanted, a perfect fairy-tale ending.
When Belle discovers the book and enters its pages she'll have to chose between living for herself in the perfect world of "Nevermore" or living for others in the reality of the Beast's Enchanted Castle, a place where she has little control over her own life.

I saw this book at a Target a while back and the cover, title and the fact that it featured a story about my favorite Disney character all piqued my interests.
I recently ordered a used copy through amazon.com and quickly devoured it in two days.
I liked the concept of getting "Lost in a Book".
As a bookworm, getting to live in a story always appealed to me, especially when things didn't seem to go well at home and no one seemed to understand me.
With that in mind, I could appreciate a comment made by Mrs. Potts.
She warns Belle, "...it's a wonderful thing to read about other people's lives, but it's important to live your own life , too-no matter how challenging that life may sometimes be." (pg. 165, Donnelly)

This book was a surprisingly fresh take on the events that take place in the Enchanted Castle between when the Beast shows Belle his library and they start to fall in love, a kind of "behind the scenes" fan fiction.
If you read it for no other reason than to get "Lost in a Book", your time will have been well spent, but this book is much more than that.

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