How Beauty Met the Beast

Book One of Tales of the Underlight

By: Jax Garren

Narrated by: Therese Plummer

Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

The Beast

Scarred. Damaged. Living with a terrible secret. Agent of the Underlight Wesley "Hauk" Haukon has nothing left but the fight for liberty against the oppressive Order of Ananke. He's starting to lose hope... and then he sees her.

The Beauty

Despite her night job as a burlesque dancer, grad student Jolie Benoit has always played the mostly good girl. That all changes following a scorching sexual encounter with a stranger whose face she doesn't see. After she's kidnapped by thugs and rescued by a man with a very familiar voice, Jolie becomes a pawn in a struggle she never knew existed.

Hauk knows he cannot have her, and resolves to protect his heart and his secrets. But as they work together and grow closer, he finds new reason to keep fighting. Dare he risk hope in a new life, one where Jolie can see past his ravaged face and where their friendship can grow into something more?

The trilogy continues in How Beauty Saved the Beast.

©2012 Jax Garren (P)2012 Audible, Inc

Can't Wait For More!

Would you consider the audio edition of How Beauty Met the Beast to be better than the print version?

I never read the print version but Therese Plummer did a wonderful ob as always.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Of course Hauk! He is so damaged on the outside but once you know him and what he is all about you can't help but to love him.

What does Therese Plummer bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

She brings every character to life. I was so glad when I saw she was the narrator I just had to purchase the book on her alone.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Could you love a beast.......

Any additional comments?

Just buy the book it is worth it. I know its short but the action and romance are great! give it a try!!

my favorite series!!!

I absolutely love this series. I love the characters and the story. it grips you from the first chapter. I have listened to this series about 100 times and never get tired of it.

I want more!

What did you like best about this story?

Everything! I started this book not really expecting much but got ecerything I love and more. I cant wait for the next book in this series.

What about Therese Plummer’s performance did you like?

As always she done a wonderful job. If it wasn't for her I problly would of passed this book bye but she is my fav so I get everything she reads.

Any additional comments?

This was a book I stumbled upon from a review of a few ppl I follow on here who also stumbled on to this book and boy am I ever glad they did. I loved everything about this book and can not wait for more.

Pleasantly Surprised

First of all thank you to Therese Plummer who is amazing. I wouldn't have found this book or taken the chance on it if it wasn't read by her.

I was really surprised by how much I liked this book. I usually don't listen to books that are this short but was very glad I did because this one was awesome. I must admit i was half expecting some cheesy rendition of Beauty and the Beast. However, thankfully that was not the case. This story took on a life of its own and surprisingly the characters were really well done. There is so much about this book that I loved; the romance, the action, suspense and the magic. Hauk was definitely my favorite character though. He just has so many intricate details about him and is just plain awesome. Trust me....just listen. I don't think you will regret it.

Can't wait to finish the whole series!

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS SERIES

If you could sum up How Beauty Met the Beast in three words, what would they be?

The compassion to look beyond the exterior of a human being is overwhelming!

Any additional comments?

Therese Plummer is the best narrator EVER

Great opener

Short but good, want to read the next one. Also I love Therese Plummer as a narrator.

Ugh! Low morals

I only got as far as finding out that after Jolie had a sexual encounter with Hawk she was in fact in a relationship. I ejected. Not my idea of Beauty and the Beast.

Don't waste a credit

I just couldn't get into the story or the characters in this book. Seemed too highly implausible, even for a fantasy storyline. The narrator did a good job, but that's about the only good thing I can say about this audiobook.

A Disappointment...,

I bought this book because of the reviews and was quite excited for this sexy, Steampunk retelling of my favourite fairy tale, but I sadly was very disappointed. To start with I felt a little concerned that beauty is only 17 and working in a strip club.I don't think that is legal or moral. The book was not very sexy or very Steampunk. There's only one sex scene at the very beginning, but it felt forced. And the whole time I just kept thinking "how is this physically possible?"! There was a cloth screen between them so I must have missed something, because otherwise it just wasn't possible to be doing what they were doing.

As for the Steampunk element, well, I did kind of like how it was portrayed. It's more underground Steampunk, literally. There's the Underlight society which is located underground and that's where all of the steam and clockwork is. But we don't get to see too much of it either way, since our hero and heroine are on the run from an enemy society. I'm still not fully clear on what was happening with that. I just kind of nodded my head and continued reading and was glad to reach the end.
Glad the book was only a few dollars or I would have felt very ripped off