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Title: couldn't finish it
Review: I LOVE "Beauty." It has been one of my favorite books for over 20 years. I feel pretty much the same about "The Blue Sword" and "The Hero and the Crown."I couldn't even finish this book. Typical of me, I felt guilty and blamed myself at first, but I finally got over it.Robin McKinley, in my opinion, has become what I call a "Director's Cut" author. She doesn't edit enough. Instead of being tight and fast-paced, her later works tend to bog down in a slow-moving morass of details. Trying to enliven the slow journey from one plot point to the next by beating the reader over the head with a soapbox doesn't help.Sorry, Robin, but you just don't do it for me any more!*Later editFunny how people change. This summer I've read both "Rose Daughter" and "Spindle's End" and loved them. What before seemed to be an endless morass of detail has suddenly become a rich tapestry of story. Hmm. Go figure.Sorry, Robin. Guess I was wrong!
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