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Title: Rose Daughter by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0-441-00583-7 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: December, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.73 (120 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: wtf?!
Comment: I have always considered myself a fastasy freak. I've read over a hundred version of Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, etc. So I can honestly say this book is the worst version of Beauty and the Beast I have ever read.
The main character came off as, well, kind of retarded and there is more romance between a brother and a sister than Beauty and the Beast. At times I felt like Beauty was talking to her large dog rather than her "beloved beast". Furthermore, the names of the characters were just rediculous. Those of you who read this book, you know what I'm talking about.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to trash talk Ms. Mckinley. I loved THE HERO AND THE CROWN and THE BLUE SWORD, but either she definately lost her touch with this book or some third grader wrote this book and gave all the credit to McKinley. I am so serious, there were grammatical errors in this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Robin Mckinley's Done It Again!!!
Comment: Rose Daughter is called Beauty, just like in the 1st book, only this time, Beauty isn't the narrator of her own story. Later on, though, the rose daughter comes to live in a mysterious castle which is owned by the Beast. At first for quite a long time, Beauty understood that she had been growing fond of Beast more and more, yet she always refused to say yes to him-until the very end of this second retelling of Beauty and the Beast.
Rating: 3
Summary: Another retelling
Comment: The beginning of this book was brilliant, in my opinion, and engaged my interest far more than Robin McKinley's original Beauty. I liked the better characterization of the sisters, the father and Beauty herself, and the world and events were far more fascinating. Where this book loses momentum is, strangely enough, when the plot gets going and Beauty meets the Beast. The scenes at the Beast's castle are incredibly slow, with large amounts of description and nothing much ever happening. The only times I felt a spark of interest again was when it returned to Jeweltongue and Lionheart, which surely shouldn't be right? The original Beauty was also quite a slow-moving book, but at least managed to track the development of the relationship between Beauty and the Beast in a believable and more interesting way. I preferred the ending of this book, of course, but found it didn't work after the poor setup. It's too hard to believe that they could fall in love in only seven days, during which they didn't even see much of each other.
I liked some of the gardening information in this book, but again, felt it was over-described, and was disappointed to see Beauty's love of books going out the window to make room for it. The descriptions of the roses worked at Rose Cottage, but not at the Beast's castle - there they just fell flat. Overall, this book had a much more fairytale feel to it than the original Beauty, but didn't tell the story nearly as economically as fairytales manage to do. In my opinion, you should read both Robin McKinley's retellings of this story, if you're interested - both have their flaws, and their strong points. Neither of them are going to be my favourite books.
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Title: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0064404773 Publisher: Scott Foresman (Pearson K-12) Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Spindle's End by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0441008658 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: 05 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Deerskin by Robin McKinley ISBN: 044100069X Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: July, 1994 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0441644511 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: August, 1989 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley ISBN: 0441328091 Publisher: Ace Books Pub. Date: March, 1989 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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