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• Posted on 2008-11-10
  Read "Beauty" instead
  
  Years ago, I read Beauty, McKinley's first attempt at the Beauty and the Beast story. I loved it. Earlier this year, I picked it up again and read it. It held up well and I still find it incredibly charming.
  
  Given how much I enjoyed Beauty, I really wanted to read "Rose Daughter" and see how McKinley's second crack at the tale fared. I expected a lot. I assumed McKinley would have matured as a writer and I was hoping to love it as much as I loved Beauty.
  
  I was wrong.
  
  The term 'florid prose' springs to mind. This novel is absolutely strangled by the egregiously wordy prose. You have to wade through painfully winding and ultimately pointless descriptions of everything, large and small. After slogging through a single run-on sentence that choked up the better part of an entire page, I threw the book away. This novel is a fine example of writing at its worst.
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2008-05-19
  A Disappointment
  
  This book was wonderful to read until the end. The ending shocked me and left me with a bad taste in my mouth. Maybe Robin McKinley was trying to make this retelling "her own". If she was, she should have chosen another way to do it.
  Score: 2
• Posted on 2007-12-31
  I like Beauty better
  
  This author's other spinning of Beauty & the Beast. I think I like Beauty better. This one was really good, though, and perhaps better developed. The Beast is clearer drawn, Beauty has a larger role in the breaking of the spell. Sometimes McKinley gets swept up in her grand descriptions. I think she forgets that lucidity should be one of a writer's goals, not just turning out beautiful phrases one has to wade through.
  Score: 3
• Posted on 2007-10-27
  A Wonderful Retelling of Beauty and The Beast!!!
  
  I purchased this book with some hesitation based on the mixed reviews I had read. This was an excellent story!! I enjoyed this book so much, it took me less than a day to read it, and I can't wait to read it again! (so I'm not:) What a wonderfull retelling of an old classic.
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2007-09-04
  Not her best, but still good
  
  First off, I adore Robin McKinley's books, period, but of all her books, this has got to be the only one I didn't feel good about when I finished reading it. I thought the story was only so-so and that she over did the details. It's bad when you are forced to skim paragraphs...much less full pages. I think this is probably her weakest novel and that she should have only written one retelling of Beuaty and the Beast. The story was good, and if you aren't a hard core McKinley addict you could probably look at it objectively and not compare it to legendary books like the Blue Sword or the Hero and the Crown, but alas I cannot. The story is over done,detailed, and written, but I still think people should give it a good try. Give McKinley a try. The ending was disappointing, but refreshing, and it's worth reading atleast once.
  Score: 4