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A review by barefoot_james
Dragon Rose by Christine Pope
4.0
Second book in the Tales of the Latter Kingdoms series. This is a stand-alone book.
This is a very good retelling of The Beauty and the Beast: however, it contains some issues that prevent me from giving it a five star rating.
The story is told in the first person. As a result, we watch as the protagonist falls in love with her husband, but we don't see her husband falling in love with her. Due to his experience with his previous wives, he knows that she will likely die an early death while the nature of the curse prevents him from saving her. There is nothing to show that he distinguishes her to be different from her predecessors.
The development of the story is slow. After all, this is a romance. We get a lot of details on her daily life. The breaking of the curse, however, seems rushed by comparison.
The protagonist meets all the conditions for her to break the curse early in the story. As the author has presented the curse, the protagonist could have died at any point in the latter half of the book and the curse would have been lifted as soon as her husband had completed his condition.
This is a very good retelling of The Beauty and the Beast: however, it contains some issues that prevent me from giving it a five star rating.
The story is told in the first person. As a result, we watch as the protagonist falls in love with her husband, but we don't see her husband falling in love with her. Due to his experience with his previous wives, he knows that she will likely die an early death while the nature of the curse prevents him from saving her. There is nothing to show that he distinguishes her to be different from her predecessors.
The development of the story is slow. After all, this is a romance. We get a lot of details on her daily life. The breaking of the curse, however, seems rushed by comparison.
The protagonist meets all the conditions for her to break the curse early in the story. As the author has presented the curse, the protagonist could have died at any point in the latter half of the book and the curse would have been lifted as soon as her husband had completed his condition.