Old As Time: Book Review

A prince, cursed into a beast because he couldn’t love others for their appearance. The pretty, village girl who everyone wants to marry, yet she only wants to read books and escape her boring life. A talking teacup, a snobby clock. You might think you know the story. But this story is one you’ll never expect.

Belle is just a girl in a village, a quite useless one. Everyone always talks about the latest gossip and news, while Belle just wants to read. Curl up with a good book and escape real life, without Gaston on her tail, begging her to marry him, or the townswomen, asking why she would be as dumb as to turn down a marriage with the handsomest man is town. It’s only a shame that magic doesn’t exist. A shame.

But that will all change one day. In a surprising turn of events, Belle finds herself launched into an adventure that’s unlike one she’s ever seen. When Belle volunteers to take the place of her dad as a prisoner to a beast, she thinks that her life is over and that she’ll never see the light of day again. Yet when she touches the Beast’s enchanted rose, she sees pictures of the mom she believed she never thought she would see again. Even stranger, Belle realizes that her mom is the Enchantress who herself cursed the Beast, his castle, and all its inhabitants. Shocked and confused, Belle and the Beast must come up with a way to work together and unravel the secret about their families and a mystery that has been twenty-one years in the making.

Overall, I would recommend this book to anyone who is bored with the normal fairytales and all the cliches. This book may not be your classic bedtime story, but it is sure to pull you in like one. With characters that are bound to make you laugh and cry at the same time, and shocking findings that will make you gasp right along with the book, As Old as Time is a fresh, new tale among the old.