Beauty and the beast robin mckinley5/26/2023 ![]() The major appeal for this story is the writing style. It almost felt like two books ideas were slapped together, when they would have served better as two separate stories. While the events that unfolded in her home life with her father and her sisters were interesting, I couldn’t quite enjoy it because I was waiting for the real story. I wanted to read about the castle and whatever mysterious magic goes on there, but this only took up the last little bit of the book. This is the focus of the book, which I had not been expecting at all. The book concentrates on Beauty’s family life prior to moving into the castle to live with the Beast. I wanted to love this book, but it lacked for me in plot. Robin McKinley’s beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?” When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. ![]() She is thin and awkward it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. Genre: Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Romance, Young Adultĭate of Publication: 1993, reprinted 2018īeauty has never liked her nickname. Title: Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast ![]()
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