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NC author Ursula Vernon is back with another one of her entertaining takes on fairy tales--this time, she's taking on Beauty and the Beast, with a couple of interesting twists. Apparently this owes a lot to Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter, which I've actually never read; although I did read her Beauty countless times in my youth (and more recently), I was unaware of Rose Daughter's existence until a couple years ago. Maybe I should read that next to compare ...more
NC author Ursula Vernon is back with another one of her entertaining takes on fairy tales--this time, she's taking on Beauty and the Beast, with a couple of interesting twists. Apparently this owes a lot to Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter, which I've actually never read; although I did read her Beauty countless times in my youth (and more recently), I was unaware of Rose Daughter's existence until a couple years ago. Maybe I should read that next to compare ...more
I have read a LOT of Beauty and the Beast retellings, and this story has to be one of my favorite twists on the tale! A girl stumbles upon a Beast in a magic manor and is forced to stay with him. Bryony is a gardener, helping her sisters get by after their father loses his fortune, and she just might be exactly what the Beast and the manor need. Then twist! (view spoiler)
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One of my favorite books ever is Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast, which I was given at the age of about 10 and read until the book fell apart (it's still on my self, but the cover is held together by contact paper). That book is so much a part of my soul that McKinley's second retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Rose Daughter, always had a distant second place. But it was Rose Daughter that captured T. Kingfisher, and I'm so glad it did.
Bryony and Roses manages to combine ...more
Bryony and Roses manages to combine ...more
Owes perhaps somewhat too big a debt to Rose Daughter (and honestly the spoiler for people who've read it that comes BEFORE the book was a huge irritant), but it's still a lovely book.
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Beauty and the Beast is definitely not one of my favourite fairytales, and yet I really enjoyed this adaption. Another one of Kingfisher's lovely practical heroines, and an enjoyably realistic progression of relationship between Bryony and the Beast.
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