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Aug 22, 2013julia_sedai rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Wow, this writing is just beautiful. I read this a very long time ago and just reread it the past week. Robin McKinley's language and style is incredible. I felt like crying while reading the book, but not from sadness, just from the beauty of it all. Robin McKinley wrote this one nearly 20 years after her first adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, called Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast. Her first version was incredible as well, and written before the Disney movie ever came out, which makes it even better. I first fell in love with the Disney version, and then read the two adaptations of Robin McKinley's, and I love them all. I would recommend reading "Beauty" first, and then this one. I just finished them both in a row in the past two weeks and they are both so wonderful.