Rose Daughter: Beauty has had a dream about walking down a hallway all her life, going towards a monster waiting for her. Then her father comes back with the terrible news that he has met a Beast, and that she has to go to him! She finds out the wonders of the Beast's palace, liking some and is annoyed by others. And every night, he asks if she will marry him. After what seems like seven days, she is allowed to go back, but if all the petals fall from a rose, he is dead. Beauty goes back and forgets all. Just as the last one is falling, she remembers and rushes back. She faces the magic that keeps him there, and defeats it. She and her three sisters are married together, and everyone lives happily ever after.
In the Author's note, Robin McKinley explains that she has written another Beauty and the Beast story, about twenty years earlier. Then she gets married and moves from Maine to England, and begins to garden. Rose Daughter is written to tell her favorite fairy tale with roses.
...with roses. I like that this whole amazing thing was written to put in things that she had missed earlier. I also like that there is magic, but it is there, part of everything, but yet something that wasn't there at first. Interesting. McKinley has written lots of other books too, and the ones I've read are great.
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