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rachel_abby_reads 's review for:
Rebel Rose
by Emma Theriault
1) Belle is not my favorite Disney princess. This book didn't change any of that. She was a snob in the movie and she was a snob again in the book.
2) I can't think of a cringier way to address her time as a captive than to say "This is a problem and we know it, but we can't talk about it, because it's awkward - wow, I sure hope this doesn't undermine our relationship later!"
3) This wasn't subtle at all. It seemed that there could be more interest in Bastien: who he was, what he was doing and why - but the 12th time in the first 100 pages that she doesn't have a good sense about him without really being able to pin it on anything, I thought: "This isn't foreshadowing - this is straight plot reveal."
4) Cogsworth was one of my favorite characters in the animated film (Hard to unlink that from Cogsworth/David Ogden Stiers/Charles Emerson Winchester III): pompous, sure, but funny and charming. We lost the funny and charming and were stuck with pompous and uptight. Nope.
5) Belle is the smartest one in the room? a) Based on what? and b) Then why ignore or discount what she's saying?
Which brings us back to the nails on the chalkboard experience that is Belle's brain:
I want to make everyone's life better, but don't let me be a princess or a queen!
"Little town, full of little people - I want so much more than they've got planned..." vs her assertion that she knows many intelligent commoners - who? her Dad, the castle staff and the bookseller? She didn't pass the time of day with anyone else!
I don't want to be on the executive committee, but why are you meeting without me and not listening to my opinions?
I so little enjoyed this that I actually picked up and started reading Dune, something I've been avoiding for decades.
2) I can't think of a cringier way to address her time as a captive than to say "This is a problem and we know it, but we can't talk about it, because it's awkward - wow, I sure hope this doesn't undermine our relationship later!"
3) This wasn't subtle at all. It seemed that there could be more interest in Bastien: who he was, what he was doing and why - but the 12th time in the first 100 pages that she doesn't have a good sense about him without really being able to pin it on anything, I thought: "This isn't foreshadowing - this is straight plot reveal."
4) Cogsworth was one of my favorite characters in the animated film (Hard to unlink that from Cogsworth/David Ogden Stiers/Charles Emerson Winchester III): pompous, sure, but funny and charming. We lost the funny and charming and were stuck with pompous and uptight. Nope.
5) Belle is the smartest one in the room? a) Based on what? and b) Then why ignore or discount what she's saying?
Which brings us back to the nails on the chalkboard experience that is Belle's brain:
I want to make everyone's life better, but don't let me be a princess or a queen!
"Little town, full of little people - I want so much more than they've got planned..." vs her assertion that she knows many intelligent commoners - who? her Dad, the castle staff and the bookseller? She didn't pass the time of day with anyone else!
I don't want to be on the executive committee, but why are you meeting without me and not listening to my opinions?
I so little enjoyed this that I actually picked up and started reading Dune, something I've been avoiding for decades.