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Nov 27, 2022red_panda_3970 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this book!
Mar 11, 2020SusyHendrix rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The language is gorgeous, but otherwise, this was not to my taste at all. I was horribly bored for much of the book and could not wait for it to be over. It lacked any real sense of conflict-- internal or external-- and the characters…
Jul 07, 2018WoodneathRachel rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
One of the first books to get me hooked on fairy tale retellings, this is Robin McKinley's second (and in my opinion, best) take on the story of Beauty and the Beast. She does an excellent job fleshing out the characters and embroidering a…
Feb 09, 2017Tabaqui rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
I liked this one a lot, but not as much as her first re-telling. Rose Daughter was almost too layered and complicated. Perhaps this was because I was reading the eBook, though. I think I'll come back to this one later and see if…
Sep 05, 2015Jen_g rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I liked the story but I didn't enjoy it. I felt it spent too much time in repetition and never getting to the point or connecting the dots. I was just plain frustrated for the last hundred pages.
Jan 25, 2014Janice21383 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Every re-teller of folk tales has two challenges: bringing something new to something very old, and bringing to life archetypal characters. Ms. McKinley succeeds, but also wanders far from the main story. Beauty spends more time communing…
Aug 22, 2013julia_sedai rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Wow, this writing is just beautiful. I read this a very long time ago and just reread it the past week. Robin McKinley's language and style is incredible. I felt like crying while reading the book, but not from sadness, just from the…
Jun 10, 2012tocch101 rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
As per usual, this story is enchanting and wonderfully told with just the right amount of story you've always known and things that seem to fall into place as if someone forgot them. Love it.
May 28, 2012UnderLust_Sins rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
an age-old story renewed. always a favorite with me, these romance stories. 5 stars, totally.
Apr 27, 2012_Abi_ rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
this was an AWESOME book...5 stars for this 1!
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Oct 03, 2011crystal_dark rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
I loved this story and felt that it was a great re-telling of the story Beauty and the Beast. This book has many interesting elements to it and is a great book to read!
Sep 26, 2011giddyleu rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I liked the 1979 version better. There was less of the interaction with Beast and Beauty in this one. This was less magical and too much prose.
Jun 02, 2010Kathy_O rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I strongly recommend that you read them in order - but not one after the other. Both Beauty and Rose Daughter are Beauty and the Beast - but this author does it justice twice again! Well worth the read!
Jun 21, 2007ryner rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
In Rose Daughter, McKinley expands on and enhances Beauty, a book she wrote twenty years earlier. Both are retellings of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. I actually liked Beauty, the shorter work of the two, better as Rose…