Reviews

Beary Tales by K.B. Miller, Willow Cross, Jennifer Malone Wright

aprilk's review

3.0

Beary Tales is an entertaining and fun story with some dark twists on fairy tales weaved throughout. I liked that the girls had different personalities and especially found Leilanni to be quite funny. The humor in the book was great and did have me laughing out loud quite a few times. I did really like the overall story and thought it was quick and fun to read but there were also a few things I did not like as well. Mostly it just came down to inconsistency. In some scenes the girls would have trouble understanding the slightest things as humans yet at other times I would be left wondering how they could speak or act a certain way without even basic human understandings. There was also a scene in the beginning of the book where Butchy named the girls because they did not even know what names were yet later there were two instances where Leilanni called her former self Nanuck. Finally I was a bit bugged by the fact that for quite a bit of the book Mato was just forgotten and not mentioned at all. Then when we did get an update it was just a few sentences and basically said he was dumped far away to explain his lengthy disappearance. He didn't even really reoccur until almost the end of the book and I felt like his character could have been so much more. But as I said I did actually enjoy reading this one despite it's flaws and I would recommend it to my less critical book loving friends who like fairy tale twists. The ending was a bit of a shock though as I assumed we were getting a happy ending. I would like to see where the story goes from here. So I really hope that there will be a sequel!

mousegoddess's review

4.0

Awesome book to win in a giveaway, just AWESOME. This came very close to being a 5 star read for me, because I ADORE fairy tales and Uncle Butchy was awesome. The tone of the story managed to balance itself well between the classic fairy tale and modern romance. I liked the pacing, I enjoyed the characters, and I liked the villain part of the ending. Which is also because the tone, voice, whatever, of the story was perfection. I also enjoyed that it didn't take itself too seriously. The flaw in the perfection was with certain supporting characters...I could tell where the author was drawing from, I could tell what she was going for, but she failed a little bit and it verged on caricature. I'd still recommend it, it was a cute, great, read.

saccalai's review

3.0

Three bears are accidentally turned into humans by a witch attempting dark magic. Luckily Uncle Butch, an extremely camp fairy godfather, comes to their rescue. Together they need to find a way to break the curse so they can turn back into their true bear forms.
A surprisingly sweary, occasionally funny, romance, with hints from lots of different fairy tales.
The narrator was a little robotic and I have no idea what the different accents were. They mostly sounded Jamaican at first.