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Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost, Vol. 4

Beauty and the Beast of Paradise Lost, Vol. 4

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  • Create Date：2022-04-04 09:51:43
  • Update Date：2025-09-06
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  • Author：Kaori Yuki
  • ISBN：1646513991
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Summary

GUARD YOUR SECRETS

After a centuries-long slumber， the crystallized sleeping beauty finally awakens！ Belle is forced to look on helplessly as the Beast is reunited with his beloved fiancée， her unrequited feelings threatening to consume her。 Things come to a head when those very feelings are accidentally revealed in front of all the castle residents， but luckily for Belle， an unexpected ally rushes to her aid。。。

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Reviews

Preethi ，

Is this really ending in the next volume？ 🥺

Mark ，

With the old Belle now woken from her slumber， Cyril’s got a new focus and that’s not our heroine。 Of course， old Belle seems kind and takes new Belle on as a servant， which should tell you something。 Elsewhere， La Medium is using her largesse to manipulate the king。 Ask not for whom our Belle toils in this volume！Phew， they don’t waste much time layering on the misery for our heroine in this one， as the old Belle brings renewed hope for everybody to get their human forms back and that leaves ne With the old Belle now woken from her slumber， Cyril’s got a new focus and that’s not our heroine。 Of course， old Belle seems kind and takes new Belle on as a servant， which should tell you something。 Elsewhere， La Medium is using her largesse to manipulate the king。 Ask not for whom our Belle toils in this volume！Phew， they don’t waste much time layering on the misery for our heroine in this one， as the old Belle brings renewed hope for everybody to get their human forms back and that leaves new Belle tossed to the curb after her feelings （and almost she herself） are stepped on。They alsodon’t waste much time making it patently clear that the old Belle kind of sucks and， fairy-tale or no， it’s a little hard to see exactly what Cyril saw in her。 Emphasis past tense， as it’s pretty clear that he’s being held hostage by his own sense of duty。 So everybody except the new girl is largely miserable throughout （and she’s not even a quarter as nice as she seems）。 With the final volume likely nigh， it’s kind of a bummer that we haven’t seen the kick-ass Belle from the first volume。 Some developments toward the end point to her potential return， as she finally hears something it might have been nice for her to know two volumes ago。Otherwise this story continues to take its wild swings wherever it can。 Belle and Belle make for a hell of a pairing， as old is cruel in her kindness to new， though it might have been more tragic to make her less blatantly awful。 Old Belle gets the wicked stepmother treatment this time around and how。Still， it draws Giselle back into the mix and has this odd misfits amongst misfits bonding between her and new Belle （who she kind of tried to kill） and Isolde that’s really pretty sweet in its way。 That’s all mixed in with the grand plots of La Medium， who is a schemestress extraordinaire。If it seems like I’m all over the place， well， you’re getting the gist of the series as a whole。 There’s no middle ground for this lot - moods must be dialled to extreme at all times， plots and pins appear at a moment’s notice。 Everything is dire and stakes must be raised at every point， even if I couldn’t for the life of me explain the point of La Medium’s plan any more。Mixed into all this are the general issues with storytelling that have existed since the first book， where panels clearly are expressing… something… but what that is isn’t especially clear。 I’m admittedly old， but having to zoom in and see what an object is and still not being able to tell？ That’s narrative fail。It’s just way too much left to the reader to infer or try and put together with minimal help from the author。 It’s got all the key words， but then feels like all the ‘the， and， then’s are removed so it’s hard to follow。 I’ve always had this issue with this mangaka so it’s not surprising， but it still bugs me。Still， the package as a whole is pretty good。 Might as well go hard for it if you’re doing a broad fairy tale， even if the narrative is not elegantly put together。 The fairy tale aspect at least explains how half-baked the romance has become。 It just lacks the true greatness it promised in that very first volume。3。5 stars - the melodrama in this story is always going for it and gets there fairly often。 I just wish the connecting tissue was a little fuller， as it makes things feel choppier than a complete work should。 。。。more

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