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misssusan's review against another edition
1.0
yes a male orientalist fantasy was exactly what i was looking for in this, a volume of a series that explicitly sells itself as being about women
please excuse me, i need to shower all the grossness off. orientalism: shares distinct similarities with the sensation of slowly being buried in a mass of writhing worms
1 star
please excuse me, i need to shower all the grossness off. orientalism: shares distinct similarities with the sensation of slowly being buried in a mass of writhing worms
1 star
qgg's review against another edition
3.0
Nalayani is an amazing female archer and a hero to her village, but she is not a Fable. This volume is also not a great story about her. It's a much better story about Prince Charming and his redemption through the love of a woman. It is blatantly using a woman to tell a man's story which is not what Fairest is supposed to be about. I still gave it three stars because it moved the story of the Fables world forward, but it should have existed in the Fables series and not in Fairest. I like the attempt to bring persons of color and other cultures into this world-building, but this is a lousy story of female Fables.
Again, the art is beautiful but it is severely sexist.
Again, the art is beautiful but it is severely sexist.
stiricide's review against another edition
3.0
Interesting standalone, but it doesn't at much to the overall Fables world.
joanarcherknight's review
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
5.0
l1brarygirl's review against another edition
4.0
I enjoyed this tale. I learned some new words and was introduced to a new fable I hadn't heard of. Had a laugh though when I found out who the Maharaja was... should have known that Prince Charming was too popular a fable to die so easily.
necessitteem's review against another edition
adventurous
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.0
I didn’t really enjoy this one all that much. Prince Charming should have remained a dead character. I feel like he had more character growth dead than he did alive in this volume. I liked Nalayani as a character, but their romance felt rushed with no true chemistry between the two. I still plan to read on, I just wish there was more to the this volume. It fell very flat for me.
thehmkane's review against another edition
5.0
I really love this volume of Fairest. Here we have badass WoC. I hate the trope that women of color "don't need no man," and I feel like this book toys with that -- it's not that she doesn't need a man, but that she doesn't have time for romance with one, and that she's not going to settle for the first obvious possibility that comes along. I love that true love isn't necessarily mutual. I love that homosexuality is not only present, but accepted, not vilified or treated as wrong in any way. Seriously, read this book.
allerkins's review against another edition
3.0
A good story but yeah Fairest is NOT about the female characters and it makes me angry that they apparently can't write a story without it having a man at the center. If you want to tell a bunch of Prince Charming stories with female love interests fine bu don't call it "the wags of Fabletown's most fabulous females."