A new and alternative Beauty and the Beast story is doing the rounds – but don't worry, it isn't another reboot. And it's not a sequel either.
Following on from the huge success of Disney's live-action remake, a new story involving the Beast has dropped to satisfy our fairytale cravings – only this time, the story's subverted.
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Instead of Belle, we are introduced to a young girl named Yeva, whose quest is to hunt the Beast back into his own territory, a "world that can bring her ruin, or salvation". Sounds ominous.
The YA book, written by New York Times best-selling author Megan Spooner, is called Hunted and has been billed as "a story for the modern age".
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Featuring spellbinding romance and intrigue, we reckon it's just the thing Beauty and the Beast fans will enjoy – especially as a sequel is off the table.
Despite no plans for a second outing to go ahead, Emma Watson already has an idea of where a follow-up could take her Disney princess – who's categorically not a princess, by the way.
"I always thought that Belle would become a teacher and she would run the library in the castle and open it up to the village," she revealed. "This was where I was going."
We'd be more than down for that.
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