debbieg 's review for:

Beauty by Robin McKinley
4.0

Robin McKinley's debut novel is charming and has been a favourite of mine since I first read it many many years ago. Reading it now, I'm amazed McKinley didn't sue Disney, as so many of the details and ideas in it (the huge library with books that have yet to be published, the talking cutlery) turn up in the movie of Beauty and the Beast. It holds up as an excellent retelling and I still prefer it to McKinley's later version, although I liked the important change to the ending in the latter work (no spoilers).