A review by scheskie
The Storyteller\'s Daughter: A Retelling of The Arabian Nights (Once Upon a Time) by Cameron Dokey

3.5

I think I have maybe read too many retellings of The Arabian Nights?  I dunno, I think the story written was pretty good, had some fun and interesting parts to it, but the way it was introduced felt heavy handed.  But it also was written in (gasp) the 1990s, so it was probably not quite so annoying then.  I don't know if this retelling really brought any new life to Shahrazad, and I'm not quite sure what the point of the book was other than to retell it in a more accessible way for Western audiences to absorb it?  But I didn't hate the book and the writing was well done.  Their growth towards loving each other was believeable, though it doesn't really hold up to today's romantasy genre, so it wasn't quite as fun as it probably would be if it was written today.  Probably a much better book when it came out that just didn't age well in the era of historical retellings and proliferation of romance fantasy today.