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A review by bookwoods
Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher
4.0
3,5/5
Just last month I read T. Kingfisher’s Sleeping Beauty retelling, Thornhedge, and I was blown away by the inventiveness of it, so perhaps that created an unfair expectation for her Beauty and the Beast retelling, Bryony and Roses, which brings gardening and clockwork creatures into the forefront of a classic tale. I did, as always, enjoy T. Kingfisher’s lead female character, who this time is a merchant’s daughter turned gardener called Bryony. I just wished the original story would have been twisted a little bit more, and that the relationship between Bryony and the Beast had more time to develop.
Just last month I read T. Kingfisher’s Sleeping Beauty retelling, Thornhedge, and I was blown away by the inventiveness of it, so perhaps that created an unfair expectation for her Beauty and the Beast retelling, Bryony and Roses, which brings gardening and clockwork creatures into the forefront of a classic tale. I did, as always, enjoy T. Kingfisher’s lead female character, who this time is a merchant’s daughter turned gardener called Bryony. I just wished the original story would have been twisted a little bit more, and that the relationship between Bryony and the Beast had more time to develop.