How Beauty Met The Beast, Jax Garren (Once Upon A Time Blog Hop)
We literally cut our teeth on fairy tales and happy endings. Life can be tough, gritty, sad and unexplainable. But gosh darn it, our hero and heroine can live on to fight the good fight or dare I say it live Happily Ever After!
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How Beauty Met The Beast (Tales of The Underlight 1) Jax Garren,
Beautiful Jolie Benoit is not like the rest of her rich family. She is a burlesque dancer working her way through grad school, when she meets the beast, a member of the Underlight, an underground community of productive and destructive members of society fighting the good fight. Wesley “Hauk” Haukon is scarred from a brutal stint in Afghanistan, he introduces Jolie to the Underlight not knowing he has just brought in the enemies daughter.
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Three Crowns, swagger jacked, decent read. I enjoyed the first book in the Underlight series. I know some people may not consider this a true steampunk but I think it is great for lightly introducing someone to the genre. Her characters were fresh and I could picture the world. I want to know more about the bellman, Jolie’s niece, the professor who are all secondary characters because she made them so interesting. I do see Jolie and Wesley’s relationship growing, they had chemistry and you start to see the beautiful Jolie looking forward to seeing him and wanting to know more about him. Basically it rang true to life. Women we have all met men who may not have been our type, but their swagger or personality moved them up the hot scale. One thing I should point out is there is magic vaguely mentioned in the book and I was unable to understand what it had to do with the story and the H/H. | Three Crowns, swagger jacked, decent read. I’m a total sucker for “fairy tale” type stories, anything from Cinderella (my personal favorite) to Beauty and The Beast. With that being said I was super excited to read this book. Wesley Haukon sounded just like what my daydreams would reflect, damaged on the outside, while inside appearing strong*sighs*. Jolie, Jolie, Jolie was another story! I felt she was stringing Wesley along and I wasn’t feeling her. I felt she didn’t deserve him. My main problem with the book was the world building or should I say lack thereof. If you pointed a gun to my head and said explain the Underlight, I’m afraid you’d have to shoot me. I hate to steal a quote but I’m going to use a phrase I heard Britney Spears say on XFactor “I don’t get it”. I know this was a novella but if you are going to make the world complicated you need to give a clear and accurate description, no easy feat. My words to the author well played your hero sold the book.
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Posted on November 30, 2012, in Bookswagger, Swagger Book Reviews and tagged blog hop, steampunk, urban fantasy. Bookmark the permalink. 112 Comments.
Sounds like a fantastic read. I love reimagined Fairy Tales. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Your welcome Judy-Ree I enjoyed it.
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Following you on Facebook as Dita Škarste.
Thanks! 🙂
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Thx Dita for following and hopping with me. Love your name:)
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Oooo, that sounds really good! Great giveaway…
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Your welcome Amy thanks for stopping by.
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Ooh, I love anything to do with fairy tales!
Thanks for the giveaway!
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Your welcome Farrah nice to see you again
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You are my winner, thanks for hopping with me! I will be emailing you.
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Thank you for the giveaway. email follower
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Nice to see you again Rita.
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I Love fairy tales thanks for the review of this one it looks good! Carin
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I thought so thx for stopping by love your avatar.
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sounds awesome! i am going to add it to my goodreads list! thanks for the giveaway!
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Cool Miriam thx for stopping by.
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Thanks for the giveaway! Sounds good!
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Your welcome Urb
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Hi, I follow by email and twitter. This sounds like an awesome read. Will definitely check it out. Thanks for the giveaway.
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Thx for stopping by Lori and for following.
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Thanks for the giveaway!
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Your welcome krsz
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I like the idea of a light intro to the steampunk genre, especially since I haven’t really ventured into that one quite yet.
Thanks for having the giveaway!
I follow by email 🙂
–Alicia
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That’s why I enjoyed it Alicia.
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I love that title and cover! Good choice! :0) Email follower and I’m sure I follow other ways too… LOL.
Thanks for the great giveaway!
Jesse
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Thx Jesse I see you. Thanks I try.
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Email follower, count me in please. Love all the new takes on fairy tales.
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I sure will Nancy thanks for stopping by.
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I actually haven’t read any retells of fairy tales yet but I have really wanted too.
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Thanks Dawna for following I enjoyed it.
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I’m an email follower! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
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Your welcome Lacey thx for following.
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Oh that book sounds really good! Hope I win!
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Fingers crossed.
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I’m interested in your book. Thanks! katieamanda1(at)yahoo(dot)com
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Thx for stopping by
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This book sounds really interesting – I can’t wait to read it! Thanks for the great giveaway!!
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Your welcome Stephanie, thx for stopping by.
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Dropping in from the hop!
Thanks for the great giveaway!
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Your welcome nice to see you Tin
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Thanks for the chance to win!
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Your welcome Natasha
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Sleeping Beauty is my favorite. 🙂
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Mine too along with Cinderella.
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The cover caught my attention…
Thanks for sharing what seems like an interesting read 🙂
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Your welcome the cover is what made me want to read it as well.
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I’ve heard great things about this book so far. Can’t wait to check it out. Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
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Your welcome Melissa thanks for stopping by.
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Followed on twitter: twveronika. Thank you for the chace to win!
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I see you thanks for following and stopping by today I am following back:)
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Thanks for joining this hop and for a chance to win 🙂
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I see you thanks for following and hopping with me today Karina.
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I love Beauty and the Beast and am sad that this book only made 3 stars. It looked so promising.
Thanks so much for the amazing giveaway and being a part of this fun hop!
Happy Holidays,
Marlena
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This was still a good read but I don’t have a half crown rating so in all fairness had to go with a three.
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ooh this sounds goooooood. 🙂
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Thanks if you get a chance to read it let me know what you think.
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Love the fairy tale and this variant sounds interesting specially since I’m just getting into steampunk.
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Cool Jan if you check it out let me know what you think.
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I love the title of you book! I’d love to read it. Thank you for the opportunity to win a copy!
Julie K
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Your welcome thx for stopping by.
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Thanks for the giveaway! I followed via email fantasy_angel381(at)yahoo(dot)com and Twitter @fantasy_angel13
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Thank you Penni, I appreciate you following and stopping by.
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I love re-imagined fairy tales, thanks for sharing!
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You are welcome thank you for stopping by chickie
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Oh, and I follow on FB as Emily Wells and twitter as chickie434.
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Gotta ya
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Thanks for particpating.
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What an amazing hop I love fairytales ^_^
especially Beauty and the beast,, so I have to read it!
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Yes they start us on fairy tales early it just never goes away
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I would love to see these fairy tales retold as erotic modern day romances:
The Princess & the Pea, The Ugly Duckling, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Snow White, Peter Pan, The Frog Prince, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, The Elves & the Shoemaker, The Golden Goose & Thumbelina. I already follow your blog as Renee Bennett. Thanks for being part of the hop and for the chance to win.
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Nice to see you again…You named some good ones, sometimes we forget about everything except the common ones.
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I’m following via e-mail as katieamanda1(at)yahoo(dot)com Thanks for participating!
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Thx for following Katie
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Thanks for the chance!
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Thanks for the blurb too. I love Beauty and the Beast and can’t complain about remakes of it so I’m going to look into the book and indulge~ Thanks again!
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You are so welcome Sandra thx for following and checking us out this hop!
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That is SOME book cover! Very cool. Thanks for the giveaway!
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You are so welcome Abby thanks for stopping by today!
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thanks for the giveaway. email follower pgan427@yahoo.com
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Thanks you Gale
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I am a big Beauty and the Beast fan! Thanks for participating in this great hop!
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You are so welcome thanks for hopping with me Juliana
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thanks for the hop all the books look good cant waite to read
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Thanks for following and hopping with me Kimberly!
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Thanks for the giveaway.
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Hey Sherry nice to see you again thanks for stopping by
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I love fairy tales, thanks for the great giveaway!
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You are so welcome Kaci, thanks for following!
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That book is on my wishlist and I can’t wait to read it! Thanks for the giveaway. I follow via email through wordpress.
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You are so welcome I hope you like it.
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This looks awesome! Thanks for participating in the hop! 🙂
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Your welcome thank you for hopping with me Corina.
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Ok, my favorite fairy tale is Cinderella, of course. She triumphed over all the challenges to find and win her true love…the prince!…sigh! For me, it’s the greatest love story and ultimate HEA!
How Beauty Met the Beast cover looks good. It would be interesting to see how Jax retells the story. 🙂
Thanks for the opportunity to share and check out new authors.
Belinda G
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I love it too! It is still my fav and when Whitney Houston played the godmother in the movie, I will admit my grown butt watched it lol.
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Thanks for giveaway allowing foreigners to participate!
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Adila (from Azerbaijan)
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Hey much love to everyone, that is why I do GC, they are digital and you can buy what you want to read! Thanks for stopping by Adila.
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I love that cover! 🙂
This sounds like an interesting read. Thank you for sharing.
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I know that is one of the things besides the title that drew me to the book who ever picked it was truly smart because it was a great choice.
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Thx for the great hop stop. Looks like a great book, love the cover and looking forward to reading it.
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Cool. I enjoyed it Lona.
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I follow by email. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I see you, thanks for following Joy.
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Thank you very much for the great giveaway!
Latisha D
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Thank you Latisha for joining me again.
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Sounds good. Thanks for sharing!
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Hey Donnas1, you are welcome
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i love goldielocks and the three bears. thanks for the great giveaway!
miriam.whitewolf@gmail.com
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I forgot about them but I did read a erotic romance set in a winter world it was pretty good wish I could remember the author it was a menage. The bears were brothers.
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I love fairy tales! When i see new fairy tale themed books, i cant help but get them. 🙂 Beauty and the Beast has always been my favorite! I love the characters and the plot. So good! Thanks for the awesome hop and giveaway! Best wishes and many blessings to you!
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You to shadow. I love Beauty and the Beast as well. I even love the fact the show Once Upon A Time included Beauty and The Beast plot in the show making Mr. Gold the beast…if you do not watch the show you should check it out back episodes are on hulu
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I followed you on Pinterest as Sophia Rose.
I love remade fairy tales and this one sounds good so I’ll have to check it out. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
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Following no FB!(Shani Smet)
Thanks for the oppertunity!
Fairytales is something that will never get ‘old’ I’ll always love Rapunzel!
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Hi. I always loved Cinderella.
Chris
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I follow under -ceagles- ceagles48218@yahoo.com
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Actually I guess it’s ceagles20.
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