Cat Hellisen

When her mother's abandonment unleashes on remaining family members the magic her parents previously avoided, Sarah witnesses her father's transformation into a wild beast and moves to her grandparents' crumbling castle to break the terrible curse. Simultaneous eBook.

Beastkeeper

Amanda 

Basically....

It sounded like this book would be a retelling of Beauty & the Beast but it was all beast and no beauty. There's no romance. There's a curse that has to be broken but can't be broken by anybody actually affected by it. The girl is 13 and in middle school and basically has her first crush that goes nowhere. It was just boring. It's my fault for not noticing it was a middle grade book. Oh, well. I didn't really enjoy it. Obviously.

Sarah has always been on the move. Her mother hates the cold, so every few months her parents pack their bags and drag her off after the sun. She's grown up lonely and longing for magic. She doesn't know that it's magic her parents are running from. When Sarah's mother walks out on their family, all the strange old magic they have tried to hide from comes rising into their mundane world. Her father begins to change into something wild and beastly, but before his transformation is complete, he takes Sarah to her grandparents—people she has never met, didn't even know were still alive. Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family bloodlines, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.

Beastkeeper

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