Mention Appertaining To Books Rose Daughter (Folktales)
| Title | : | Rose Daughter (Folktales) |
| Author | : | Robin McKinley |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 304 pages |
| Published | : | December 1st 1998 by Ace (first published September 16th 1997) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Young Adult. Romance. Fiction. Retellings |
Robin McKinley
Paperback | Pages: 304 pages Rating: 3.77 | 18554 Users | 1146 Reviews
Representaion During Books Rose Daughter (Folktales)
It is the heart of this place, and it is dying, says the Beast. And it is true; the center of the Beast's palace, the glittering glasshouse that brings Beauty both comfort and delight in her strange new environment, is filled with leafless brown rosebushes. But deep within this enchanted world, new life, at once subtle and strong, is about to awaken. Twenty years ago, Robin McKinley dazzled readers with the power of her novel Beauty. Now this extraordinarily gifted novelist returns to the story of Beauty and the Beast with a fresh perspective, ingenuity, and mature insight. With Rose Daughter, she presents her finest and most deeply felt work--a compelling, richly imagined, and haunting exploration of the transformative power of love.
Present Books Supposing Rose Daughter (Folktales)
| Original Title: | Rose Daughter |
| ISBN: | 0441005837 (ISBN13: 9780441005833) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Folktales |
| Literary Awards: | Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Children's Literature (1998) |
Rating Appertaining To Books Rose Daughter (Folktales)
Ratings: 3.77 From 18554 Users | 1146 ReviewsAssessment Appertaining To Books Rose Daughter (Folktales)
Reading this book is like watching someone else's dream. Things happen inexplicably and the dreamer is unruffled, incurious. She just moves on to the next strange occurrence. You get a sense of symbolism everywhere, but the symbols are specific to the dreamer herself, and have nothing to do with you, nothing to tell you. The people in the dream are not people at all, they are personified roles and attributes - Bravery, Intelligence, Wealth, Wisdom, Envy - moving through a landscape of Big Town,Nice beginning, slooooow middle, weird ending. Honestly not sure why this book was written.Counting it for "A novel". VT reading challenge 2018
Beauty lives in Rose Cottage with her sisters Lionheart and Jeweltongue and is learning to be happy. Then her father steals a rose from an enchanted castle and must send his youngest daughter to the Beast's lair where she sets about healing his damaged rosebushes and also his heart? 1. I was not prepared for that ending and am honestly kind of side-eyeing McKinley hard for allowing it to end like that??? I was not prepared to have to accept that kind of fetish in my fairy tale retelling. YIKE.
*4.5 STARSI adored this book so much! First off, the writing. I LOVED IT!! I literally found myself laughing out loud at point. Multiple times which doesn't happen often for me. And the character were also a delight. I loved them all! They were all very distinct and felt like different people. It's also refreshing to find a retelling that not only has "Beauty" have sisters ( I love Disney's Beauty and the Beast but I blame them for this key plot often being left out of retellings nowadays) but
Robin McKinley's Rose Daughter tells the story of Beauty and the Beast, which she has already told before, and in my opinion, better, in [Book:Beauty]. She claims she felt she had to retell the story when she learned more about roses, after cultivating them. Never have I read a book before where I felt so much like the author was simply marking time until she got to the bit with the compost. Manure provides an important climactic moment. She certainly manages to convey what roses mean to her,
This book had such wonderful promise. I fell in love with the writing and style immediately, thrilled to have found a retelling of "Beauty & the Beast" that still held on to so much from the original French fairy tale. I was flying through, unable to put it down (or stop listening as I tackled CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!).Then little disturbances started to creep into the tale. Where was Beauty's charm beyond being able to to tend roses? And this Beast, he is already kind and considerate. Where
Ugh, Beauty is the better of the two re-tellings of Beauty and the Beast by McKinley, hands down. In this one, Beauty is just too dumb and one dimensional for words. All she wants to do is garden. Booooring. I say dumb, because before she and her family left the city, she went to all if her friends to learn how to do important stuff like make butter and cheese and can goods, important survival stuff when going from a city to the middle of a rural village. A magical salamander that is her friend
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