A review by aggressive_nostalgia
The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley

More entertaining than i was expecting - at least in the first story - but still, not excellent, per se. I haven't read any of McKinley's other works yet (although I just started The Blue Sword today), so I can't make a comparison there. Still, I found "The Stolen Princess" to be fairly riveting, actually, for the twenty minutes it took me to read it; and "The Hunting of the Hind" was pretty good as well. "The Princess and the Frog" was rather flat, on the other hand, not to mention sparse - consisting of less than ten pages. Both that story and "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" just seemed like another thin retelling of the same fairy tales with a few of the details rearranged. All in all, this was all right for an hour or so, but not brilliant. The first story was by far the best one.