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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
Not only a beautiful and excellent re-telling and expanding of Beauty and the Beast, but set across a world that has clearly been built and developed and then tucked away so we only catch glimpses of it.
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
This was really lovely. I read this immediately after reading Beauty and it was pretty cool to see how McKinley was able to re-weave and bolster this story twenty years later. I liked the way she deepened the backstory for Beauty's sisters and gave them story lines of their own (I kinda want a book about Lionheart). The town they moved to was really cool and full of interesting characters. I loved the rippling background of the curse and the green witch and Beauty's mother. It was all really good stuff.
Again, I did think the ending was a little too abrupt. There was one big info dump and a really swift wrap-up. It was better than Beauty in that respect, but I still could have used a little more time to reveal so much.
But oh, man. The roses didn't super get to me, but the little animals definitely did. The hedgehogs!!! <3
Again, I did think the ending was a little too abrupt. There was one big info dump and a really swift wrap-up. It was better than Beauty in that respect, but I still could have used a little more time to reveal so much.
But oh, man. The roses didn't super get to me, but the little animals definitely did. The hedgehogs!!! <3
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I think, of all of her books, this book is the closest that Robin McKinley comes to encasing exactly what it means to love somebody, and to allow yourself to be loved in return. I will be mulling over this one, over and over like tilled earth, for a long time. I have a feeling it will sit, like an ember, slowly warming me from the bottom of my heart.
A little too abstract for me at points but I liked the ending. I think part of the problem was that I was trying to figure out how to film it instead of take it as it is. Only I don't get why people think its a romantic book it's not really.
adventurous
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Cool retelling of Beauty and the Beast, but I think I would have liked it more without looking through the lens of a retelling.