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A review by jennifermreads
At Midnight by Dahlia Adler
4.0
Delightful, diverse, dark, creepy, sweet fairy tale retellings: this anthology has it all. I especially was appreciative that editor Dahlia Adler including the original fairy tales in the second half of the book. It was nice to re-read old favorites, yes, but I was grateful to have the source material handy for the stories I had never heard of: “Fitcher’s Bird,” “Frau Trude,” “The Nightingale,” and “The Robber Bridegroom.”
It was only “The Littlest Mermaid” that left me feeling “meh.” It was the style of storytelling that had me not feeling the emotion or passion of the tale: pure prose, very little dialogue. The rest of the stories were enjoyable and a couple had me saying “Whole book please”: “In the Forests at Night” by Gita Trelease and “Just a Little Bite” by Roselle Lim.
It was only “The Littlest Mermaid” that left me feeling “meh.” It was the style of storytelling that had me not feeling the emotion or passion of the tale: pure prose, very little dialogue. The rest of the stories were enjoyable and a couple had me saying “Whole book please”: “In the Forests at Night” by Gita Trelease and “Just a Little Bite” by Roselle Lim.