A review by pattydsf
Terribly Twisted Tales by Kelly Swails, Jean Rabe, Martin H. Greenberg

2.0

This is where I like Good Reads better than Shelfari. On Good Reads, two stars are "It was okay." and that is exactly where I am with this book. The same two stars on Shelfari say I didn't like it. Short story collections are often a mixed bag with some great stories and then some not so great.

I liked the concept for this book - take a familiar tale and give it a slant that is unexpected. I would say that all 18 stories do this well. I just found some of the directions the authors chose to not fit my expectations at all. And occasionally, I wasn't sure what the author's intent really was.

I think my favorite stories were by Annie Jones about Goldilocks and Jody Lynn Nye who based her story on Androcles and the lion. (This is not really a fairy tale, but the twist was good.)

I suspect that each reader of this book will find her favorites. And that is the best part of short story collections.