Beauty and the Beach

Boys of Summer

By: Kayla Tirrell

Narrated by: Megan Meyer

Length: 2 hrs and 7 mins

Publisher's Summary

A tale as old as time...with a twist!

Rose had it all until melanoma left her scarred at the ripe age of 18. Now, she’s Sterling's most infamous recluse, and no one knows why except for her family. 

Adam spends his summers working at the local tourist trap to help his mom make ends meet. So when his neighbor offers to pay him enough to cover rent for a month if he breaks into Rose Beaumont's house, he jumps at the opportunity. 

This chance encounter between two teens from opposite sides of the beach soon transforms into something more. But just when things start heating up, secrets that can destroy everything threaten to surface. 

Beauty and the Beach is a genderbent retelling of Beauty and the Beast. It is a novella in the Boys of Summer series, a collaboration between several YA authors. They are all stand-alone stories that take place in the same fictional town. Escape to Sterling Beach today!

Saving Hadley by Amy Sparling

Beach Town Bad Boy by Maggie Dallen

Riptide by Jordan Ford

Don’t Fall for the Summer Fling by Tammy Andresen

Flirting with the Enemy by Sally Henson

Beauty and the Beach by Kayla Tirrell

Falling for the Rich Boy by Yesenia Vargas

Summer Love and Basketball by Seven Steps

©2019 Kayla Tirrell (P)2019 Kayla Tirrell

A true beauty

Beauty and the Beach is a charming retelling of Beauty and the Beast that explores what makes a person beautiful and how their tragedies can shape them but not define them. Adam and Rose are well developed characters with an interesting story involving romance, surfing, and misunderstandings set in a tourist beach town. The narrator does a great job changing voices between characters and drawing listeners into the story. An excellent read, especially for fans of Jenn Bennett’s Alex, Approximately.

amazing sweet YA romance

A beautifully well written amazing quick YA romance. This addicting storyline had me engaged from beginning to end with realistic story. This sweet romance included sad moments, jealousy, declarations, a little drama, different social circles and a fun twist told from dual POVs. The characters were interesting and both growing and learning from their mistakes throughout making for an amazing story. The narration was done effortlessly distinguishing between each character and with just the right amount of emotion really bringing the story to life.

Cute retelling in Contemporary genre

Voice and audio are perfect.

Story is cute but for me personally a bit nervewrecking at times in the beginning because I have made really, really bad decisions in my youth (and still lol) but the way these main characters live... the girl had a major thing happening and was as shallow as the sea is deep at the beginning that it bothered me. Okay, she this is a retelling of beauty and the beast with amnongst other things, a gender switch. And therein lies the shallow part that I have never been able to get: SPOILER ALERT, she has a nasry scar. And well, I can rate her scar a 5% on the scale of the scars on my arm from a nasty third degree burn years ago and even though I was “only” 18, it never bothered me outside the “keeping it out of the sun or it burns immediately those first years. Could not understand why my aunt was asking me whether I considered plastic surgery. So, I’m not the idle type and therefor, the “beast-part” was annoyingly shallow in my book. So I guess others might relate more so for me personally, this only gets 3 stars, personal preference. But objectively, as fixed on the wrong thing (like I keep calling this shallow) as most teens and hell, even adults can ever get, I think it’s worth the 4 stars. Luckily though (especially for me lol), she contemplates and grows significantly so my annoyance didn’t last too long. The boy on the other hand... I cannot believe he was okay to forgo (that particular type of) his morals. I guess desparate makes very stupid... But even given the fact that it starts out as me looking like the adult screaming in their faces ‘what do you think you’re doing?’, the story did have it’s cute and lovely moments and went in the right direction so I had a wonderful time anyway. And at least they both learned very important lessons!

Short, captivating and cute YA that made me giggle

I love how this hooked my interest though I'm not surprised how Kayla did it. No doubt, she's just amazing!

So good that I want more of them and the series.

Cute and Sweet

Rose is the popular girl in town who just happens to have a secret. She’s become a sort of recluse and another less popular girl wants yo know why. Adams is the “poor boy” in town. Him and his mom are having a hard time financially since his dad died a year earlier. He’s offered money yo find out what Rose’s secret is. He reluctantly agrees because his family needs the money. He meets Rose and the more he gets to know her the more he realizes that she’s not the girl he thought she was. I liked both Adam and Rose. Beauty and the Beach is a cute story but also a good example of why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover.

A teen romance

This book I think is supposed to be a different type of Beauty and the Beast retelling. The girls name is Rose. She is the one that has the scar not the boy Adam. She was the one that was referred to as the beauty before her disfigurement. This was a clean cute story about a girl who gets skin cancer and becomes a recluse for a short period of time. A boy who needed money was convinced to spy on her to find out why she was not going out. He needed the money. But he finds Rose intriguing and he doesn’t know if he can go through with telling Rose’s secrets.

who is the real beauty?

Rose was the high school mean girl and Adam was from the wrong side of town. He is asked to find dirt on Rose by a friend who Rose was mean to. What happens when Rose and Adam meet? I loved how she changed and how he really saw her. I was waiting for the angst and it came but I loved how the author handled it. The narrator did a good job of switching characters and making me see what was happening.

Beauty and the Beach

A short sweet tale in the vein of Beauty and the Beast. Kayla Tirrell did a great job of portraying how these teens handled the situations that they were faced with.

Megan Meyer’s narration was well done. She brought the characters to life and gave the story a very real feeling.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.

Short but sweet YA beach romance

I love Beauty and the Beast stories. This one is simple but well done. Rose is already a humbled "beast" by the time Adam stumbles into her life, but she's struggling with the lonely emptiness of her life, & you realize that he is too, in his own way. It's sweet how they connect.

The narrator does a great job with the different characters' voices.

*Clean romance level: sweet kisses

excellent!

loved this sweet, short story! the narration was great and the story was very sweet and fun!

Light and sweet and enjoyable.

Megan Meyer really brings the characters and the story to life with her narration.

I really enjoyed this story. It's a new telling of an old tale and I really like the way it's done. It's on the lighter, sweeter side and that's what makes it so enjoyable I think. I would have been more than happy to carry on longer with these characters.

loved it!

Loved Rose and Adam, loved the storyline and how things turned out to be! Good story!