Books like The Beast Within: A Tale of Beauty's Prince

Geez, this one was rough.((sigh)) There's not a lot here and what is, wasn't great. Please know, this hurts my heart to write this. I have all the books in this series and am obsessed with the covers and naked books. I have read the first book in the series, Fairest of All, and gave it four stars. I don't know if maybe the fact that Beauty and the Beast is my favorite fairy tale made me judge this one differently or if it is, in fact, the content. First, I absolutely hated the Prince/Beast. There was nothing redeemable about his character at all and his story arc was 100% flat. I don't feel he evolved AT ALL. Spoiler Alert: Belle ends up with him and you're like, NOOOOOOO!While reading his chapters, all I could picture in my head was Joffrey Baratheon, and any GOT fan knows that is not a compliment. The story itself was all over the place. Some parts of the book were taken directly from the Disney movie (the original animated one that I have watched 2,568,401 times) which normally wouldn't bother me, but the dialogue was exact and it didn't explore any of the scenes at all. It felt so rushed and there was no heart behind it. Picture: Beast saving Belle from wolves, here's a library, Gaston & Beast fight, a kiss, THE END -- in about 20-pages with no coherent connection or exploration of ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc.One thing I did enjoy was the friendship of the Prince and Gaston prior to him being cursed. That was interesting and I thought that added to the original story in a unique way. Even though this one let me down, I am definitely planning to read the rest of the books in the series. Maybe the others will work for me more as I am not as attached to the stories and characters. I would recommend this for a MUCH younger audience; perhaps tweens wouldn't feel as bent with it as I was! Thanks for reading my rant.