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monicadee 's review for:
Spindle's End
by Robin McKinley
I have loved fairy tale retellings since I read [b:Beast|81130|Beast|Donna Jo Napoli|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1390039681s/81130.jpg|1170737] by Donna Jo Napoli almost 15 years ago. Last Year I read [b:Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast|41424|Beauty A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast|Robin McKinley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1294192311s/41424.jpg|2321285] by Robin McKinley and thought it was fairly well done, so I thought I'd try another of McKinley's fairy tales and picked this one about Sleeping Beauty. The twist that McKinley puts on the story is interesting and unlike anything else I'd ever read, and filled with a menagerie of incredible characters of both animal and human kind. However, I did not like the style of writing: too much of the book is in narrative form and I feel closer to the story through dialogue; the overuse of parenthesis nearly drive me to closing the book for good only a few chapters in; and the flowery language the author uses to tell the story is too drawn out and the syntax is confusing in some places.
This won't be a book that I hoard on my shelf and keep close to my heart, but it is one that I am glad to have read and I will continue to read McKinley's works.
This won't be a book that I hoard on my shelf and keep close to my heart, but it is one that I am glad to have read and I will continue to read McKinley's works.