This is not the first McKinley novel I have read, so I did have very high expectations – and I was not unsatisfied. I love Robin McKinley’s writing and comparing her two retellings of ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is like comparing chocolate cake to a brownie – they might look like they’re the same thing and even sound like they’re the same thing, but there are differences beyond the initial concept and if you want something to satisfy the chocolate craving you go for the cake ( Beauty), but if you want something to give you an intense burst of flavour with something you didn’t quite expect (Is that walnut or pecan? Can I detect coffee?), then you swipe up the brownie ( Rose Daughter).īeauty is a beautiful retelling of the classic. Rose Daughter was first published in 1998. I read Beauty first, since it was first published in 1978.
Aw! Both of these books written by Robin McKinley appropriate this classic fairytale, however they were written twenty years apart. ‘Beauty and the Beast’ is one of my favourite fairy tales – a beautiful daughter is sent to live with a Beast because her father has stolen a rose from the Beast’s garden, only to fall in love with the creature she once feared, thus casting away a spell and discovering the Beast is really a handsome and wealthy man, and they all live happily ever after.
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