In the story Beastly, Kyle Kingsbury is the popular, hot guy that everyone wants to be with. However, he doesn’t have an easy life; his father never talks to him and is always working. When he goes to a school dance with his girlfriend, Sloane, after promising Kendra, a geeky, nerdy girl he would go with her as a joke, things go wrong. First, Sloane gets mad because Kyle didn’t give her the corsage she wanted. Also, Kendra gets mad at Kyle for acting like he did. For revenge, she turns him into a beast and gives him two years to find a girl to fall in love with him for who he is and not how he looks. He goes into hiding, gets tutored by a blind teacher, changes his name to Adrian, and gets a girl to come to his house after her father breaks in. However, she hates him for keeping her prisoner. Things just can't go right for Adrian. Will she ever love him? Will the curse be lifted or will he look like a beast forever? Read the book to find out.