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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
dark
Este libro lo leí hace un buen tiempo, no sé por qué no traje la reseña antes. Creo que es el hecho que sean varias historias cortas muy disparejas lo que me hace difícil darle una valoración y opinión global.
Algunas de las escritoras que aparecen en la lista ya había leído, caso de Julie Kagawa y Rachel Hawkins. Y luego otras que tenía pensado nunca leer como (y únicamente): Amanda Hocking. Ok, no sé por qué nunca me ha caído bien la señora Hocking, y sus libros no me han interesado mucho, se me hacen muy clichés. Y esta antología solo confirmó mis sospechas, la historia corta de Hocking es tan presuntuosa, no, en serio, me imagino al editor leyendo el material de los otros escritores y llegar al de Hocking...
Pero esa solo soy yo siendo un poco hater xD
Grim tiene muy buenas historias cortas. Mis favoritas:
• Beauty and The Chad de Sarah Rees-Brennan: me reí un montón, está sí es un buen retelling de La Bella y la Bestia. Buenísimo.
• Figment de Jeri Smith-Ready: #Crying
• Thinner than water de Saundra Mitchell: Una de las mejores del libro. Oscuro, retorcido. Justo lo que el libro buscaba. Quiero leer más de Saundra.
• The Brothers Piggett de Julie Kagawa: Me gustó mucho la adaptación que se hizo
• Untethered de Sonia Gensler: ♥
Les voy a ser sincera y estos son solo algunos que me acuerdo xD Mi cuaderno me está ayudando, pero fui muy tacaña con los comentarios ahí.
Grim me ha gustado, como les digo tiene algunas historias que no me engancharon a su lectora, otros como el de Sarah Ress supieron darme mucho en pocas páginas. Es una poco complicado reseñar una antología.
Algunas de las escritoras que aparecen en la lista ya había leído, caso de Julie Kagawa y Rachel Hawkins. Y luego otras que tenía pensado nunca leer como (y únicamente): Amanda Hocking. Ok, no sé por qué nunca me ha caído bien la señora Hocking, y sus libros no me han interesado mucho, se me hacen muy clichés. Y esta antología solo confirmó mis sospechas, la historia corta de Hocking es tan presuntuosa, no, en serio, me imagino al editor leyendo el material de los otros escritores y llegar al de Hocking...
Pero esa solo soy yo siendo un poco hater xD
Grim tiene muy buenas historias cortas. Mis favoritas:
• Beauty and The Chad de Sarah Rees-Brennan: me reí un montón, está sí es un buen retelling de La Bella y la Bestia. Buenísimo.
• Figment de Jeri Smith-Ready: #Crying
• Thinner than water de Saundra Mitchell: Una de las mejores del libro. Oscuro, retorcido. Justo lo que el libro buscaba. Quiero leer más de Saundra.
• The Brothers Piggett de Julie Kagawa: Me gustó mucho la adaptación que se hizo
• Untethered de Sonia Gensler: ♥
Les voy a ser sincera y estos son solo algunos que me acuerdo xD Mi cuaderno me está ayudando, pero fui muy tacaña con los comentarios ahí.
Grim me ha gustado, como les digo tiene algunas historias que no me engancharon a su lectora, otros como el de Sarah Ress supieron darme mucho en pocas páginas. Es una poco complicado reseñar una antología.
really good collection! i rather think it would be faster to talk about the stories that didn't work for me then the ones that did as the latter vastly outweigh the former
ellen hopkins' before the rose bloomed: didn't really add anything new or interesting to the story and i could see no reason for the verse other than that hopkins has made a name for herself as a verse writer and is comfortable sticking with that
myra mcentire's skin trade: couldn't see the point tbh. the love story was too threadbare to do anything for me and the story in general felt like it lacked purpose
amanda hocking's the pink: another story that doesn't do much with its framework, if you've read the original fairytale you may as well pass because it doesn't really add anything new to the story
otherwise i enjoyed myself quite a bit! the other stories all managed to either use their fairytales to say something important -- i really loved how tessa gratton's beast/beast structured itself around the theme of choice -- or played with the tone -- sarah rees brennan's beauty and the chad sort of demonstrates yet again that she has one narrative voice but as it's funny and charming i really don't mind -- or did something cool with the setting -- shaun david hutchinson's better aka the pied paper of hamelin IN SPACE! 14:3 is a really good ratio of solid stories to poor ones, christine johnson ought to be proud. 4 stars
ellen hopkins' before the rose bloomed: didn't really add anything new or interesting to the story and i could see no reason for the verse other than that hopkins has made a name for herself as a verse writer and is comfortable sticking with that
myra mcentire's skin trade: couldn't see the point tbh. the love story was too threadbare to do anything for me and the story in general felt like it lacked purpose
amanda hocking's the pink: another story that doesn't do much with its framework, if you've read the original fairytale you may as well pass because it doesn't really add anything new to the story
otherwise i enjoyed myself quite a bit! the other stories all managed to either use their fairytales to say something important -- i really loved how tessa gratton's beast/beast structured itself around the theme of choice -- or played with the tone -- sarah rees brennan's beauty and the chad sort of demonstrates yet again that she has one narrative voice but as it's funny and charming i really don't mind -- or did something cool with the setting -- shaun david hutchinson's better aka the pied paper of hamelin IN SPACE! 14:3 is a really good ratio of solid stories to poor ones, christine johnson ought to be proud. 4 stars
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A very modern YA take on a selection of well known fairy tales.Very american rather than international in its pitch; I liked some tales more than others but a few of them were very well done ranging from scary to funny. And I do like a modern fairy tale reworked!
I thought that this book was a fantastic idea. An anthology of fairy tales with a dark and sinister twist written by famous YA authors? Who could say no? I actually did really enjoy reading this book. It was also slightly disappointing. I've always had a fascination with the Grimm Brothers fairy tales, but this book wasn't really close. A lot of these stories weren't scary at all. I was expecting all of them to be, but only a few were. The scariest story in this anthology was probably Julie Kagawa's story. I love her writing and her stories, so of course this was fantastic. It was a retelling of the three little pigs. My other favourite story was written by Kimberly Derting. All in all, I really did enjoy most of the stories. They were all very enjoyable, and interesting to read.
A collection of short stories all inspired by fairy tales. Some of the stories fall flat as they were simply retellings, but this book really shines in its twisted fairy tales. My favorites were "A Real Boy" by Claudia Gray, a touching futuristic story about a robot built to be like a human, and "Beauty and the Chad" by Sarah Rees Brennan, a laugh out loud version of Beauty and the Beast where a modern day frat boy is thrown back in time to be the Beast and Beauty has no idea what he is talking about half the time. Would recommend to anyone looking for fun short stories.
This was one that was perfect for fall; I was ready to enter the world of fun creepy stories. Unfortunately, I was really underwhelmed by the majority of stories in here. Though there were a few that were somewhat well done, I often found myself bored and wanting to pick up something else instead. This would be one I would skip and choose another story series if you're looking for a fun Halloween read.
I have been crushing on fairy tale adaptations, such as Angela Carter's, so I decided I should have a look at this collection of fairy stories as well, especially considering it features stories by a couple of YA authors I haven't read anything by yet. And I'd say that overall this was definitely an enjoyable read.
This collection is quite short, if you ask me. I almost raced through it, not necessarily because the stories were so amazing but because each of them is relatively short and it was quite easy to move on from the different stories. With the actual Grimms' fairytales, I usually had one read to me and then, as a child, I would be thinking about it, imagining different endings or beginnings, i.e. each fairytale stuck with me in its own right. This didn't happen for me for most of these stories. I found it really easy to move on and didn't become very connected to most of the characters or the plots. Whether this is my fault for picking it as my travelling read for today or whether it reflects on the stories themselves I don't know.
There are a ton of issues in reviewing a collection because you can't discuss each story but you don't want to ignore any of the authors either. So I'm going to discuss the two different categories of stories that I saw: the inspired and the original stories. Those inspired by the classic fairytales I think I generally enjoyed more. Ironically, I again found myself most excited by those derived from Beauty and the Beast and especially 'Beauty and the Chad' by Sarah Rees Brennan, whose Unspoken I love as well. This story seems to have real potential for gender discussions and Brennan really went with this and wrote not only a very entertaining story, but also raised some really interesting points. The original stories occasionally lacked what I feel is essential to fairytales: a clear moral. Although this means occasionally fairytales become preachy, they fulfill their purpose to teach.
The writing in general was quite good. Each of the authors managed to set the scene and create characters that acted quite convincingly. I was very happy to see it lacked those cliche 'love at first sight' moments and has given me hope that there are good YA novels out there. Of course I know they're out there, but they can be hard to find and now I've been given a whole list of authors to check out. Each story did have it's own style and was different in how it chose to narrate and show the action.
I would recommend this collection to either YA fans or fairytale fans, but if neither is really your genre, there's not a lot for you here. I enjoyed reading it but kind of flew through it without being too affected. This is not the place to find any kind of deep emotions related to these narratives.
This collection is quite short, if you ask me. I almost raced through it, not necessarily because the stories were so amazing but because each of them is relatively short and it was quite easy to move on from the different stories. With the actual Grimms' fairytales, I usually had one read to me and then, as a child, I would be thinking about it, imagining different endings or beginnings, i.e. each fairytale stuck with me in its own right. This didn't happen for me for most of these stories. I found it really easy to move on and didn't become very connected to most of the characters or the plots. Whether this is my fault for picking it as my travelling read for today or whether it reflects on the stories themselves I don't know.
There are a ton of issues in reviewing a collection because you can't discuss each story but you don't want to ignore any of the authors either. So I'm going to discuss the two different categories of stories that I saw: the inspired and the original stories. Those inspired by the classic fairytales I think I generally enjoyed more. Ironically, I again found myself most excited by those derived from Beauty and the Beast and especially 'Beauty and the Chad' by Sarah Rees Brennan, whose Unspoken I love as well. This story seems to have real potential for gender discussions and Brennan really went with this and wrote not only a very entertaining story, but also raised some really interesting points. The original stories occasionally lacked what I feel is essential to fairytales: a clear moral. Although this means occasionally fairytales become preachy, they fulfill their purpose to teach.
The writing in general was quite good. Each of the authors managed to set the scene and create characters that acted quite convincingly. I was very happy to see it lacked those cliche 'love at first sight' moments and has given me hope that there are good YA novels out there. Of course I know they're out there, but they can be hard to find and now I've been given a whole list of authors to check out. Each story did have it's own style and was different in how it chose to narrate and show the action.
I would recommend this collection to either YA fans or fairytale fans, but if neither is really your genre, there's not a lot for you here. I enjoyed reading it but kind of flew through it without being too affected. This is not the place to find any kind of deep emotions related to these narratives.
I'm going to be honest with you, I bought this (after staring agonizingly at it for a week or so) completely for the Sarah Rees Brennan short story, and that is what I'm basing the rating on. Give me a Beast (sorry, a Chad) with fluid sexuality and a genderfluid (probably) Beauty any day!