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“Beauty takes a fairy tale that we’ve heard so many times and seen in so many formats, and it re-tells it in a way that is super understandable. It’s very familiar, and the situation in which she finds herself is not because “her evil sisters wished her into it”, or anything like that. It’s a thing that befalls her – it’s a way to save her family. And her relationship with the beast, as it progresses, is very understandable. Sometimes in a fairy tale, when we’re just told the bones of the story, we have to fill in what we think happened. Robin McKinley does a lovely job of filling in the details and the emotions, and the things that would make a young woman fall in love with a beast.” Read more...
The Best Medieval Fantasy Books
Robin Hobb, Novelist
Our most recommended books
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Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories
by Angela Carter -
The Song of Achilles
by Madeline Miller -
The Once and Future King
by T H White -
Beren and Lúthien
J R R Tolkien, Alan Lee (illustrator), Christopher Tolkien (editor) -
Bridge of Birds: A Novel of an Ancient China That Never Was
by Barry Hughart -
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
by Jack Zipes (translator and editor) & Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
