Beautiful is in three parts. Part one follows the pattern of the fairy tale, though the central character is not the white bear prince or the intrepid young woman who travels east of the sun and west of the moon to save him from a curse. Our narrator, whom I named Hulde, only had a bit-part in that original story. The novel-length version takes Hulde way out of her comfort zone as she heads off into the unknown world beyond the glass mountain, to find out what it means to make your own story.
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This book! This book! Ms. Marillier squeezes my heart dry every time. Literally. I sit here hiccuping from all the crying.
Just go into this book blind. Just go. I can't, I need to cry some more.