My advice if you have never read any of Robin's books: Start with "Beauty" or "The Blue Sword" or "The Hero and the Crown". I think "Beauty" was the romantic ideal of an unmarried woman in her 20s, and "Rose Daughter" is the romantic ideal of a married woman in her 40s. I can see now that "Rose Daughter" has much to offer. I did not reread "Rose Daughter" again until this audio version came out. When this book first came out on paper, I got it immediately, but I was Very fond of "Beauty" and I think I was jealous on its behalf. But this story is fairly different in many ways. They are both telling the same fairy tale, after all. Oddly, many years and books after "Beauty" Robin chose to tell the story of Beauty and the Beast again. Her first book is entitled, "Beauty" and is the story of Beauty and the Beast. Robin McKinley is one of my favorite authors in the whole world.
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