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[[Robin McKinley]]'s second retelling of ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'' has much of the same elements of the [[Beauty a Retelling of Beauty And The Beast|first one from almost twenty years earlier]]: a merchant fallen on hard times has three daughters, the youngest one named Beauty, who move to the country and pick up the ways of life there, only to get into a sticky situation with a rose-loving Beast. This retelling, however, places a greater focus on the roses and the magic that surrounds the Beast's castle and ends up with a different feel (and ending, although it's still a [[Happily Ever After]] one) than the previous one.

 

 

The Beast tells him that he will spare his life if Beauty comes to live in his castle, so Beauty does. She learns that the Beast's rose garden is dying and resolves to bring it back to life; along the way, she meets many creatures, both seemingly ordinary and magical, and gets to know the Beast as more than a terrifying monster - but will it be enough to restore the rose garden? And what of the magic and back story that surrounds and even haunts the Beast?

* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: The Beast's castle has a constantly changing floor plan. Even the decorations and shape of tables keep on changing every time Beauty passes through the rooms.

* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Beauty plants two rose cuttings from the rose her father gave her. This turns out to be a ''very'' good thing later on.}}

* [[Something About a Rose]]: A given for all ''[[Beauty and The Beast]]'' tellings, of course, but this telling in particular has a heavy focus on the caring and meaning of roses. Especially in the castle, where practically ''everything'' inside has a rose motif, right down to the soap.

* [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]: Lionheart disguises herself as a boy to get a job as a stablehand.

* [[Year Outside, Hour Inside]]: Beauty stays with the Beast for only seven days, but when she returns to her sisters, she learns that seven months have passed for them.

** Which leads to a bit of [[Fridge Horror]] when you consider how fast the petals fell from the rose the Beast gave to Beauty even when she was away from the castle. If the condition of the rose represents the Beast's condition and it took less than a day for all the petals to fall outside of the castle, just how long ''did'' it take for the Beast to start dying when Beauty left him?

 

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