
Beauty is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty interwoven with several other fairy tales. It is deemed that the prince needs an adventure and a wife, but he needs some protection so heโs sent off with the Huntsman. On their travels they find a cottage with a wolf problem and discover a city in slumber. We all know that the prince wakes Beauty up with a kiss but what happens next? Itโs not all happily ever after here.
โSheโs asleep. You just canโt go around touching girls when theyโre asleep.โ
I was actually expecting it to be a bit raunchier. It certainly is not for children, there are a few sex bits but overall it felt very much like a fairy tale with extra characters and a bit more grown up. I think Sarah Pinborough wanted to make a point about sexism but thereโs a really awkwardly explained scene where the Huntsman is going on about how women shouldnโt be judged if they have sex. Which is true, but seemed an out of place this in the context of this tale. He wasnโt doing anything wrong, so why was he going to lengths to justify it?
โIf we wake up in a hundred years with trees growing out of our arses, then Iโd say we didnโt make it.โ
It was interesting to have an explanation and justification behind why Beauty was put to sleep. I liked the fact that all the fairy tale characters lived in the same world, that they knew of Rapunzel even though sheโs not from their story (neither is the Huntsman).
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