![]() When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. She is thin and awkward it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. ![]() ![]() A lot of this can be chalked up to adherence to the overall themes of the source material, and more to this being the debut work of an author who goes on to improve dramatically, but overall I sort of have to give this a resounding ‘ehhhhh’.īeauty has never liked her nickname. Less Gaston, a tiny bit more agency for Belle, and not-horrible female relations improve, while less cleverness, not as much evidence for the Stockholm syndrome to set in, and no awesome animated furniture or musical numbers detract from the telling of a problematic story in an only marginally less problematic way. Beauty was the debut novel of now far-more-prolific American author Robin McKinley, and is a re-telling of the classic story of Stockholm Syndrome and toxic masculinity Beauty and the Beast. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |