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pattydsf's review against another edition
2.0
This is where I like Good Reads better than Shelfari. On Good Reads, two stars are "It was okay." and that is exactly where I am with this book. The same two stars on Shelfari say I didn't like it. Short story collections are often a mixed bag with some great stories and then some not so great.
I liked the concept for this book - take a familiar tale and give it a slant that is unexpected. I would say that all 18 stories do this well. I just found some of the directions the authors chose to not fit my expectations at all. And occasionally, I wasn't sure what the author's intent really was.
I think my favorite stories were by Annie Jones about Goldilocks and Jody Lynn Nye who based her story on Androcles and the lion. (This is not really a fairy tale, but the twist was good.)
I suspect that each reader of this book will find her favorites. And that is the best part of short story collections.
I liked the concept for this book - take a familiar tale and give it a slant that is unexpected. I would say that all 18 stories do this well. I just found some of the directions the authors chose to not fit my expectations at all. And occasionally, I wasn't sure what the author's intent really was.
I think my favorite stories were by Annie Jones about Goldilocks and Jody Lynn Nye who based her story on Androcles and the lion. (This is not really a fairy tale, but the twist was good.)
I suspect that each reader of this book will find her favorites. And that is the best part of short story collections.
mazza57's review against another edition
4.0
snow white, red riding hood and others like you never read them before
librarydanielle's review against another edition
3.0
some of these stories were fantastic (Capricious Animistic Tempter) and some were fun, but mediocre (waifs) and some I disliked (rapunzel strikes back). the ones I disliked the most were the shorts that turned a fairy tale into a modern story. not a modern fairy tale, just a story. like the Rapunzel one. it had so little to do with a fairy tale if it hadn't been for the "let down your..." bit it wouldn't have had any relation.
pattydsf's review
2.0
This is where I like Good Reads better than Shelfari. On Good Reads, two stars are "It was okay." and that is exactly where I am with this book. The same two stars on Shelfari say I didn't like it. Short story collections are often a mixed bag with some great stories and then some not so great.
I liked the concept for this book - take a familiar tale and give it a slant that is unexpected. I would say that all 18 stories do this well. I just found some of the directions the authors chose to not fit my expectations at all. And occasionally, I wasn't sure what the author's intent really was.
I think my favorite stories were by Annie Jones about Goldilocks and Jody Lynn Nye who based her story on Androcles and the lion. (This is not really a fairy tale, but the twist was good.)
I suspect that each reader of this book will find her favorites. And that is the best part of short story collections.
I liked the concept for this book - take a familiar tale and give it a slant that is unexpected. I would say that all 18 stories do this well. I just found some of the directions the authors chose to not fit my expectations at all. And occasionally, I wasn't sure what the author's intent really was.
I think my favorite stories were by Annie Jones about Goldilocks and Jody Lynn Nye who based her story on Androcles and the lion. (This is not really a fairy tale, but the twist was good.)
I suspect that each reader of this book will find her favorites. And that is the best part of short story collections.
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