Rosie is good - McKinley has a tendency to create strong (and likable) characters.

Have you read Sunshine?

Sleeping Beauty (and certain variants of Beauty and the Beast are, oddly enough) are not high on my list of "normal fairytales" that I like.

The latter is particularly odd I think, when you consider my devotion to the Angela Carter retelling The Tiger's Bride and liking of, say, East of the Sun, West of the Moon. of which east by edith pattou is my favorite novel-form version.