Talk:The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince/@comment-6032121-20151226143003/@comment-1672596-20160401024751

I doubt this book's really all that canonical, really. Glen Keane pretty much confirmed that Beauty and the Beast took place pre-French Revolution in the late 18th century. Cinderella took place... what? During the Industrial Revolution?

Besides, the wicked queen turned out to be a woobie destroyer of worlds in her previous book, even though it doesn't really work with the original movie. And heck, thanks to the way Beast was handled in this book, it seemed as though Belle just went out of the frying pan and into fire since they made the Beast more of a monster and about as bad as Gaston if not even worse, and it isn't even clear if he even learned his lesson.