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Summary: Puhleeze!!
Review: First I would like to state that I am by no means bashing this book by giving it 3 stars. It was a pretty good book overall, but it could have been much better. Beauty was a very wonderful caring and sensitive girl who falls in love with a Beast. Kind of sounds like a fairytale we all know of. The only problem? The Beast stays a Beast! He doesn't change into a man at the end of the book. I'm sorry but I found that a little disturbing. Not to mention nasty. Who wants to marry a great big shaggy monster? I wonder what the kids would look like? The very essence of the fairytale "Beauty and the Beast" is that the Beast becomes a man at the end and is able to shed the curse that was laid on him and get on with his life as a normal person with the girl he loves. And I just do not believe that Beauty fell in love with him after only seven days. The only things worth reading this book for are the themes of beauty coming from within and the rose symbolizing the good and bad that comes from living life. Overall, not terrible but not really fairytalish.
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Summary: not as good as Beauty
Review: This book was good but a little too, I don't know, I guess you cold say involved but that doesn't seem like the right word. It's basically like Ms. McKinley wrote Beauty over again, changing a few things, and making it worse... The ending is kinda weird and a little gross when you think about it. But, if you are willing to struggle through it, it's a good book.
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Summary: Rose Daughter
Review: Robin McKinley has done it again in this variation of the classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. Unlike her previous book, Beauty, Rose Daughter is more in depth and differs dramatically from the original story of Beauty and the Beast. This was an enjoyable book because of its vivid imagery and realistic characters. It is truly one of Robin McKinleys' most entertaining and imaginative books.
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Summary: the best but the worst
Review: the book rose daughter by robin mckinly was pretty good. I read about 2+ hrs a day. I love rading and this is a good book to read. to me this is a twisted version of one of my favorite fairy tales. no offence to robin mckinly but to me the stoy was ruined at the end which i won't tell. i think that beauty was far better than this book (story wise) but rose duaghter had better detales and misteries to slove in your head.
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Summary: Lots of enchantment in this novel!!!
Review: I am a huge fan of "The Beauty and the Beast" story. I saw the Jean Renoir movie of the same name when I was a teenager. While ~60 years old it is the most magical of the Beauty and the Beast stories around -- on film. The Disney version was surprisingly good -- for Disney-- but it stole a lot of Renoir's concepts as its own. I have a beautiful picture book of the same story by Mercer Mayer, perhaps. I was quite pleased by McKinley's _Beauty._ It's a very nice book along the lines of the Napoli short novels for pre-teens. Those retell and re-shape fairy stories into something not Grimm and not Disney, but human and magical._Rose Daughter,_ though, is something else. Its denseness and rich language make it inappropriate for all but the best teen readers. Its story, I think, will also be beyond all but the most mature teens: Beauty, Jeweltongue and Lionheart all transform themselves long before the Beast comes into their lives consciously. Like _Deerskin_ they change through hardship and hard work, to become better, richer people, not so much through magic. I also think this is a fabulous novel to recommend to friends who love to garden, especially roses. The end was surprising, but ***excellent.***
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Summary: Sweet, kindly, romantic notions, cute main character
Review: Rose Daughter was the third book of Robin Mckinley's that I read. (First was the Hero and the Crown, 2nd the Blue Sword.) It is very, very different from those two books. If you liked those two novels, you'd probably be interested in reading this one, but should be prepared for something different. Someone said all of Robin Mckinley's characters have inner strength and independence...I think that was true for the first two books I read, but this one cannot be described as that. That's not quite right. "Beauty" the main character, the Rose daughter, is sweet and cinderella-like. Gentle and gentled by those around her. Her substance in the story lies in that she has an indirect influence on the lives of those around her. I gave it three stars, because it really must be categorized as romantic fiction, but if it's going to be called a romance novel, it's better than a great many I've read. Ms. Mckinley has not won her newberry medals and honors for nothing. But this is not her most impressive work, if it has to be weighed that way. Oh, another thing, the fact that he is a beast, I do not think, is so very disgusting. It IS only a story. And one is always thinking, unconsciously, of the soul of a man that is behind the beast. The idea is supposed to be that beauty is inside us.
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Summary: Dreary
Review: I have always thought that many of Robin McKinley's books were a little slow (ok, a lot slow), but this one surpasses that. What could be said in one word is said in ten. Seriously. I enjoy details and chattiness-but there is a limit and it wasn't chatty, it was, for lack of a better word, dreary. The whole village, world, cottage, castle seemed to be dreary. Including the ending. Perhaps there is some hidden meaning to the pages of reader boredom, perhaps you enjoy hearing long descriptions of things every other paragraph, but I (obviously or I'd be writing a review that would increase my reviewer rank) didn't. Perhaps other people will find the characters deep and interesting and care about them-I didn't. Perhaps another reader will enjoy the usually painfully predictable plot. I loved Beauty, but I was disappointed that I had bothered to purchase this book. If I ever risk reading Robin McKinley again it will certainly be a library book.
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Summary: WOW!! And I mean wow!
Review: I think that "Rose Daughter" by McKinley is outstanding. I'm not a big Beauty and The Beast fan, but this book makes the story more enjoyable and refreshing. I could not put it down. I can't wait to read more of Robin McKinley's fine masterpieces.
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Summary: Beautiful retelling of a classic fairy tale.
Review: I will admit to being a whole-hearted Robin McKinley fan - I generally enjoy her work very much, but I think this one is really quite special. The whole room seems to smell of roses while reading it!
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Summary: Not "Beauty"
Review: I enjoy all of Robin McKinley's books, but nothing can compare to her early work. (i.e. "Beauty", "The Blue Sword", etc.) The ending to Rose Daughter is very disappointing, and though I loved most of the story, especially all the work she does with roses, I can't get past that the Beast just stays a Beast. Doesn't it seem gross to anyone else?
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