A review by chriskoppenhaver
Honeycomb by Joanne M. Harris

4.0

"Mosaic novel." I've seen that description for this book, and it's perfect. It's a collection of 100 fairy tales and fables. Some are isolated stories that illustrate a facet of life. Some are part of a larger narrative woven through the book. And some provide supplemental backstories to lesser and incidental characters from the larger narrative, in a sense combining each of the other two. I think all of my favorites were isolated fables that served only themselves, but, after a slow start, the larger narrative became increasingly compelling until I was reading for that more than anything. The overall package is quite marvelous.