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A review by sisareads2476
The Wish Granter by C.J. Redwine
3.0
I'm not very familiar with the Rumplestiltskin tale but I know that he somehow met his own fate by being proud and overconfident, believing himself to be the invincible and undestructable, and our Wish Granter, Alistair Teague here was no different.
First, I liked how our heroine Arianna was introduced as a fiery, carefree, brave bastard princess rather than the typical YA pampered high privilege royal. It adds character to her personality and explains all the things she did in the story. I can't say I admire her choices most of the time especially with dealing with the fae Alistair coz it was in many ways reckless and foolish but she was a character you'll definitely root for.
In some parts, I grew impatient that nothing major had happen since she did that reckless decision of planning to thwart the fae's evil plans and still manages to have it all backfired at her and turn the tables on Teague's side...I'm forever waiting for that "Aha,you've done it girl" moment but remain just waiting until the last chapters where she set all her plans at motion ( hurray!)
I'm also very disappointed with our mighty Fae, Alistair, for someone who thinks of himself as the ancient, ever powerful invincible entity, he sure had an odd way of showing it, (again, I blaim this of him being narcissist and over confident, thus underestimating everything, tsk tsk) and just like any other antagonist in the villian community, he sure loves hearing himself gloat, and talk he did!
I admire his evilness, of him being so ruthless and malicious that I believe he was an effective villian but then he was tricked and thwarted just like that and i was like " oh, not the brightest star after all" pffft!
I was also iffed that our brave Princess Ari was alwasy distracted at her task at hand but manage to flirt with the love of her love Sebastian even at the face of danger, oh well..guess I just have to deal.
overall, I like what I read but still disappointed how it seems that all the juicy reveals was squeezed right just short of the ending,. it left me feeling unsatisfied with the whole retelling .It just didnt quite delivered what i was expecting it to be, but I'm still glad that it all ends well and everyone got what they all deserved.
First, I liked how our heroine Arianna was introduced as a fiery, carefree, brave bastard princess rather than the typical YA pampered high privilege royal. It adds character to her personality and explains all the things she did in the story. I can't say I admire her choices most of the time especially with dealing with the fae Alistair coz it was in many ways reckless and foolish but she was a character you'll definitely root for.
In some parts, I grew impatient that nothing major had happen since she did that reckless decision of planning to thwart the fae's evil plans and still manages to have it all backfired at her and turn the tables on Teague's side...I'm forever waiting for that "Aha,you've done it girl" moment but remain just waiting until the last chapters where she set all her plans at motion ( hurray!)
I'm also very disappointed with our mighty Fae, Alistair, for someone who thinks of himself as the ancient, ever powerful invincible entity, he sure had an odd way of showing it, (again, I blaim this of him being narcissist and over confident, thus underestimating everything, tsk tsk) and just like any other antagonist in the villian community, he sure loves hearing himself gloat, and talk he did!
I admire his evilness, of him being so ruthless and malicious that I believe he was an effective villian but then he was tricked and thwarted just like that and i was like " oh, not the brightest star after all" pffft!
I was also iffed that our brave Princess Ari was alwasy distracted at her task at hand but manage to flirt with the love of her love Sebastian even at the face of danger, oh well..guess I just have to deal.
overall, I like what I read but still disappointed how it seems that all the juicy reveals was squeezed right just short of the ending,. it left me feeling unsatisfied with the whole retelling .It just didnt quite delivered what i was expecting it to be, but I'm still glad that it all ends well and everyone got what they all deserved.