Beauty and the Beasts

i’d like them to upload the whole series…….it is amazing!!

Those are actually good points about Bai’s reaction to Winston, and to clarify I know she was having lewd thoughts and feelings about him, but I kind of figured too that being violated and abused by someone you trusted a lot kind of makes it worse? I dunno, I guess it came off differently to me, which is okay!

And the Curtis with the mark thing I actually hadn’t thought about, and I appreciate the input! Honestly I hadn’t really read into it that way, but it makes sense

I think the reason that I interpreted it the way I did was because unlike Parker, she did make the decision that she liked and wanted to be with Curtis. He respected her when she wanted space or didn’t want to be touched, and while he did force his spousal mark on her, when he found her again he kept his distance and took care of her from afar. She had started to develop feelings for him when his captive already, and she said that after he gave her to Muir that they could see each other again (I mean she could have been lying though, it’s hard to say). But at that point she was genuinely scared for his safety and that he was working himself to exhaustion to save her. When she wanted to remove the mark she was having doubts about actually wanting to do it, because he had kidnapped her and he was feral, but she still couldn’t shake that she cared about him. I just wish that she had been able to remove the mark if she wanted to, because it would have added more weight to her decision. Maybe she could have decided to give him a second chance on her own terms with her own rules, that would have been cool, I think

(also not saying that Curtis doesn’t have a LOT of problems and toxic behaviors, he absolutely does. I wish that it was addressed by Bai or anyone else and that he committed to being less toxic)

But yeah, contrast this with Parker, who pretty much said she owed him because he saved her, and like Curtis was also holding her against her will but in a much less obvious way. She only accepted him later out of guilt, even though she stated she saw him as more of a brother, she just sort of allowed him to be her partner because it was easier and she felt she had to accept it

I guess my biggest issue is that I feel she has been pressured into the relationships and that just kind of leaves me feeling bad? It feels like Winston has been the only healthy one for her most the time, and it would have been nice if she finally got to choose to accept him instead of it being again forced on her. Hell it’d be nice if she could feel comfortable sexually around any of them, because it seems like she’s always trying to get out of having sex and usually seems uncomfortable

Might not be reading into it the way it’s meant to be, but that’s kind of just how I saw it going in

True but Bai also said that if he didn’t do it like that and he did it when she was ready it would be by the heart

Okay but she was still raped, rather violently, and was essentially okay with it. At least Curtis HAS grown a bit in that he cares more about Bai’s safety than his possessiveness. Winston joining them was his idea.

If you re read those chapters it was a “myth” not prooven.

around her ankle sorry I was thinking of curtis while writing this and got side traked he had his tail around her ankle

He raped her. A sexual assault is still a sexual assault regardless if there was penetration. We don’t know (I never read the book) if she’s pregnant with his baby or not since she had sex with the other guys as well.

What I dislike is she was a child (16) & a 40+ year old man raped her (she became immediately pregnant) then impregnated again & had babies which she had taken from her. Then she became pregnant a third time in less than a year of her arrival to the beast world & finally a fourth time. If she was 16 when she arrived & year passed then she’s only 17.

She never had the chance to be a normal teenage girl. Worst part is the author has zero regard for how a teen girl would feel being ripped from her friends & family then forced into relationships based on being raped. Curtis raped her & became “spouse” #1. Winston raped her to become spouse #3. Parker raped her out of jealously. All three relationships are unhealthy.

Bai displays her trauma later on in the novel. The manga hasn’t even covered a fraction of the novels plot yet