Korynn's review
Beauty (Spectra Special Editions) by Sheri S. Tepper
Not so much a fantasy as a giant allegory in which Sleeping Beauty is also all Beauty in the world. We're the sleepers. It's rather depressing, fixating on a horrible future of drones and machines and death and pollution, the standard: the world's going to hell in a handbasket if we don't wake up and save the rainforest, whales, oceans, animals, air, environment, ozone, learn to recycle, reuse and honestly people wake up! It's all true. However I really hate to have the point beaten into me everytime I try to read. I do read to escape.
So allegorical works annoy me. Yes they do. Really.
I did admire the fun Tepper had though in linking the fairytale sleeping beauty to cinderella to snow white to rapunzel to the frog prince, oh and avalon's thrown in too.
So allegorical works annoy me. Yes they do. Really.
I did admire the fun Tepper had though in linking the fairytale sleeping beauty to cinderella to snow white to rapunzel to the frog prince, oh and avalon's thrown in too.
