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A review by jhen_squared
Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
3.0
Not as amazing as I was expecting
The stories were alright, if not more on the darker side than I imagined. I know they're short stories so my expectations weren't very high but the second to last story, The Marsh King's Daughter I absolutely hated. It was far too long, far too on the nose of 'Christian' for me and not even Ina a stuble/metaphoric kind of way and I just didn't like it at all. At four different points I thought we had reached the end of it but it just kept going and I was over it. I don't regret reading it though and I liked the illustrations though at times I found some of them to have been far too crowded and overdone those were far and few between.
The stories were alright, if not more on the darker side than I imagined. I know they're short stories so my expectations weren't very high but the second to last story, The Marsh King's Daughter I absolutely hated. It was far too long, far too on the nose of 'Christian' for me and not even Ina a stuble/metaphoric kind of way and I just didn't like it at all. At four different points I thought we had reached the end of it but it just kept going and I was over it. I don't regret reading it though and I liked the illustrations though at times I found some of them to have been far too crowded and overdone those were far and few between.