![]() She’s also a bookish horsewoman who privately thinks of herself as “the ugly one”, and everything takes place in a place that’s definitely in our world but may or may not be England. However, McKinley’s Beauty is actually named Honour, Beauty being a nickname for an offhand childhood remark, and her two sisters aren’t vile and jealous, but sweet, kind, and virtuous beauties who love their baby sister dearly. It follows the traditional fairy tale quite closely–Beauty, the youngest daughter of a ruined shipping merchant, offers herself in her father’s stead when a Beast demands her father’s life for taking a rose from his castle’s garden. Unfortunately, it’s another beloved book that didn’t work for me.īeauty is, as the subtitle puts it, a “retelling of the story of Beauty and the Beast”. Feeling a need to temper a library pile that was weirdly missing fantasy, I tossed it on the pile the last time I visited my library. Unbeknownst to me, it was published long before the young adult category existed, in 1978, and so was shelved with the children’s books. I actually rented Sunshine, which I thoroughly enjoyed, because I couldn’t find Beauty at my local library. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My high school library had a copy, and it was one of the first books on the reading list, as it is recommended in Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust. Beauty was the first Robin McKinley novel I was ever aware of. ![]()
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