Review - Beauty

[wilderthan]

Apparently, Robin McKinley has written two retellings of the "Beauty and the Beast" story. Beauty is the first. It's easy to read, and the world building is pretty simple -- i.e. none of the layers that Sunshine has -- not that the details given aren't well-placed and lovely. I would dearly love to live in the Beast's castle just for his library, anyway. It isn't a re-imagining of the story by any means: details may differ, but the plot overall remains the same. But the detail and the voice makes it interesting enough.

I enjoyed it a lot, as a bit of light reading, and I'm planning to read Rose Daughter, for comparison, when I can afford it or when the nice anonymous has a fit of generosity again. (If it was one of you who bought me Kushiel's Avatar, please own up. I love you anyway, whoever you are, but there was no name on the invoice and while I can narrow it down a bit from the comment, I'm not psychic!)