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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.2094401
EAN num: 9780441005833
ISBN number: 0441005837
Label: Ace
Manufacturer: Ace
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 304
Printing Date: December 01, 1998
Publishing house: Ace
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 44331
Studio: Ace
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Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight. With Rose Daughter, she presents her finest and most deeply felt work--a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.
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This book was wonderful to read until the end. The ending shocked me and left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe Robin McKinley was trying to make this retelling "her own". If she was, she should have chosen another way to do it.
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This author's other spinning of Beauty & the Beast. I think I like Beauty better. This one was really good, though, and perhaps better developed. The Beast is clearer drawn, Beauty has a larger role in the breaking of the spell. Sometimes McKinley gets swept up in her grand descriptions. I think she forgets that lucidity should be one of a writer's goals, not just turning out beautiful phrases one has to wade through.
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I purchased this book with some hesitation based on the mixed reviews I had read. This was an excellent story!! I enjoyed this book so much, it took me less than a day to read it, and I can't wait to read it again! (so I'm not:) What a wonderfull retelling of an old classic.
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First off, I adore Robin McKinley's books, period, but of all her books, this has got to be the only one I didn't feel good about when I finished reading it. I thought the story was only so-so and that she over did the details. It's bad when you are forced to skim paragraphs...much less full pages. I think this is probably her weakest novel and that she should have only written one retelling of Beuaty and the Beast. The story was good, and if you aren't a hard core McKinley addict you could probably look at it objectively and not compare it to legendary books like the Blue Sword or the Hero and the Crown, but alas I cannot. The story is over done,detailed, and written, but I still think people should give it a good try. Give McKinley a try. The ending was disappointing, but refreshing, and it's worth reading atleast once.
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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 I didn't feel that 'Rose Daughter' added anything meaningful that wasn't already there. Part of what's missing for me is the natural progression in Beauty's relationship with The Beast - i.e. from fear to love through trust and compassion. In this book Beauty shows little or no terror at being completely uprooted from her family and forced to cohabitate with a beast-like creature. As a result, her ultimate love for this creature is less satisfying to the reader than it could have been. Still, I recommend it to readers who continue to enjoy the magic of fairy tales, adults included.
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