Beast

Beast is the story of Orasmyn, Prince of Persia. When he seeks to help in the sacrificing of a camel, as is ritual in his country, he discovers on the morning of the sacrifice that the animal is imperfect and has blemmish. He decides to cover the blemish and allow that the animal be sacrificed anyways. Later that night he is incountered by a spirit from the other side and a curse is placed upon him. The curse is that his father will kill him the next day.This serves as punishment for allowing the animal with blemmish to be sacrificed. Frightened, but determined not to die at the hands of his father, Orasmyn goes strait way to his father and tell him everything. They make a plan, in which they decide that Orasymn will stay locked in his bedroom that night and all of the next day, while his father will do the same except to go on the hunt with the guest that have come from so far. All seems to be going well until Orasmyn meets a lady on the street who needs help and then tells him that the only way for the curse to be removed is if a woman can fall in love with him. Scared that she should know of the curse when he only has told his father of it, Orasmyn runs through the rose garden and stays there a while. There he falls asleep, and when he wakes he finds himself turned into a Lion. Here the adventure really begins. As Orasmyn flees from the hunters he must learn how to work in his new body. Over the next two years Orasmyn travels from Persia to India, then to France. In France he discovers an old abandoned castle and takes it over as his home. When a blizzard hits and an old merchant is forced into the castle for safety, Orasmyn learns the man has a daughter. He demands the man, by writing on the floor with his paw, to bring the daughter to the castle, and the man agrees because he thinks that this lion is possessed. When Belle arrives she is unhappy and Orasmyn does everything in his power to win her over and to make her happy. As time goes by the two grow closer and closer, Orasmyn truly falling in love with Belle and Belle finding compassion for the Beast.

This was a wonderful book, I thought it was fantastic and I thought that it was well written. I thought the ending of the book was weak though and thought that the author should have put just as much detail into the last event as she had all the others of the book. I felt the author gave up on the ending and instead of polishing the story of nicely I felt like the carpet was ripped out from underneath me.