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purplcrosswords's review
2.0
My two star ratting is mostly due to my personal preference than quality. I honestly thought it was a great idea to turn Rapunzel’s tale into a cyberpunk short story. However, it felt like, concept aside, the re-telling did not live up to its potential.
It was broken, alright. Our Rapunzel’s prince is an adulterous bastard who uses her for her technological qualities – that is, her power and knowledge. But somehow I expected a bit more from the story than that. Everything else seemed solely a conversion of hair and velvet into wires and plastic.
That said, for me it was an ‘okay’. I think it required a bit more wit to get quite there. But then again, I’m quite picky in what concerns re-tellings, they very seldom leave me satisfied. One cannot simply retell for the sake of it, there has to be a good idea behind.
It was broken, alright. Our Rapunzel’s prince is an adulterous bastard who uses her for her technological qualities – that is, her power and knowledge. But somehow I expected a bit more from the story than that. Everything else seemed solely a conversion of hair and velvet into wires and plastic.
That said, for me it was an ‘okay’. I think it required a bit more wit to get quite there. But then again, I’m quite picky in what concerns re-tellings, they very seldom leave me satisfied. One cannot simply retell for the sake of it, there has to be a good idea behind.
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