Following Odysseus’s journey to return home to his beloved wife, Penelope, readers are transported into a world that easily combines the realistic and the fantastic.
Hinds adds another magnificent adaptation to his oeuvre ( King Lear, 2009, etc.) with this stunning graphic retelling of Homer’s epic. With one exception, characters are cued as White.Ī promising start to a new series of fairy-tale continuations grounded in historical events. Fairy-tale fans will enjoy the care and depth given to Belle’s character and the touches of magic. Intricate characterization and historical details and a satisfying ending help counterbalance the slow-moving plot, and patient readers will be rewarded for their persistence. Though Belle knows she has work to do, she makes little progress, and the story’s pacing does not pick up until the very end. What ensues are pages of long-winded accounts of Lio’s trying to placate nobles and Belle’s ideas being disregarded. Meanwhile a magical force tries to warn her of what is coming to Aveyon if she and Lio are not careful. Revolution is brewing in the streets of late-18th–century France, and despite refusing to assume the title of princess, Belle is deeply conflicted. With a 10-year-long absence to explain, Belle and Lio travel to Paris to pay their respects to the king, but during their trip Belle stumbles upon an uprising.
The curse is broken and Belle and the Beast, better known as Prince Lio, are happily married. Ever wonder what happened to Beauty and the Beast after happily-ever-after?
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