Coming back to it, I definitely wanted to like it more than I did. As I was writing this I realized how many times I got impatient with Beauty and the way she just refuses to really utilize all the magic. McKinley has just dipped her world in a pool of magic and it's dripping off in great drabs but Beauty is just completely oblivious. She and her sisters are probably all to some degree magical themselves but every time someone suggests Beauty might be a greenwitch she just dismisses the idea out of hand. It ends up coming off a bit ridiculous.
It was interesting to note the touches from the original fable that she weaves in and the way she just sort of gave the characters of the sisters a quarter turn to make the story work better for her purposes.
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Date: 2012-03-27 11:03 pm (UTC)It was interesting to note the touches from the original fable that she weaves in and the way she just sort of gave the characters of the sisters a quarter turn to make the story work better for her purposes.