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zaralily 's review for:
Rose Daughter
by Robin McKinley
Probably 4 hand a half stars really. I don't quite know what to say about this book and I'm not a particularly eloquent write so you'll have to deal with a bullet point review.
The good things:
- I loved Beauty, the Beast, Jeweltongue, Lionheart and so on.
- The Beast was brilliantly created.
- This is an amazing portrayal of my favourite story. One of the best.
- I finished this book completely in a daze of how brilliant it is.
The bad:
- I really struggle with McKinley's writing style, it veers off from the main point, is detailed at strange points in awkward ways and I feel like I missed many paragraphs throughout this book just wanting to get to the action.
- I'm not sure, had I put this book down, I could've picked it up.
- It is very slow to start.
- I definitely need to re-read this book I missed so much due to silly structured paragraphs but I will never be able to bring myself to.
Another thing I need to note is this book is very similar to Deerskin, I appreciate the similarity in the basic fairytales both are based on, and Rose Daughter had a slower start than this one, but I did feel like I was hearing the same wife dies, Father falls into a depressin, forgets all about his daughter(s). Both Dad's (when sad) as described so similarly, they're the same characater (allowing a difference that Beauty's dad doesn't later rape her and turn into an evil b******)
But yeah, despite her writing style McKinley does create some amazing characters and fabulous storylines.
I think I reccomend this book.
The good things:
- I loved Beauty, the Beast, Jeweltongue, Lionheart and so on.
- The Beast was brilliantly created.
- This is an amazing portrayal of my favourite story. One of the best.
- I finished this book completely in a daze of how brilliant it is.
The bad:
- I really struggle with McKinley's writing style, it veers off from the main point, is detailed at strange points in awkward ways and I feel like I missed many paragraphs throughout this book just wanting to get to the action.
- I'm not sure, had I put this book down, I could've picked it up.
- It is very slow to start.
- I definitely need to re-read this book I missed so much due to silly structured paragraphs but I will never be able to bring myself to.
Another thing I need to note is this book is very similar to Deerskin, I appreciate the similarity in the basic fairytales both are based on, and Rose Daughter had a slower start than this one, but I did feel like I was hearing the same wife dies, Father falls into a depressin, forgets all about his daughter(s). Both Dad's (when sad) as described so similarly, they're the same characater (allowing a difference that Beauty's dad doesn't later rape her and turn into an evil b******)
But yeah, despite her writing style McKinley does create some amazing characters and fabulous storylines.
I think I reccomend this book.