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sophiahelix 's review for:
Rose Daughter
by Robin McKinley
Erg. I read and liked McKinley's earlier retelling of [b:Beauty and the Beast|41424|Beauty A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast|Robin McKinley|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169613617s/41424.jpg|2321285], and while there are some interesting new elements, and it feels more mature on the whole, the story is also somewhat plodding for the first two thirds and then impossibly rushed for the last third, and I wasn't quite sure what was happening in the final twenty pages or so except that it was really boring and confusing. There are about six pages of straight-up exposition from a figure who has, until now, been mysterious and shadowy, and on the whole I didn't feel there was anything new until the end...
[spoilers:]
I've actually played with the idea that a human prince would not feel the same to Beauty in a short story, but while keeping him a beast is an interesting change, I literally wasn't sure that that was what had happened until I hopped over here to read the reviews. McKinley didn't really do anything with it, and after pages of opaque and rambling description, it was annoying to have the one original element of the story get buried at the end.
[spoilers:]
I've actually played with the idea that a human prince would not feel the same to Beauty in a short story, but while keeping him a beast is an interesting change, I literally wasn't sure that that was what had happened until I hopped over here to read the reviews. McKinley didn't really do anything with it, and after pages of opaque and rambling description, it was annoying to have the one original element of the story get buried at the end.