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tasharobinson 's review for:
Some Kind of Fairy Tale
by Graham Joyce
An intriguing setup and some very interesting casting work that winds up being a bit undone for me by a rushed ending that takes us out of the POVs we care about most, and leaves most of the characters' eventual responses to the story's ending offstage. The take on "fairies" here, in the traditional British "inhuman bastards who'll whisk you off to their world without regard for what it does to your life" sense is intriguing and told very well, but I couldn't have been more tuned out of the dry chapters where a psychiatrist analyzes the fantasy story here in terms of female hysteria and rape trauma, among a thousand other things. I found it really hard to square where the story eventually goes with the first half of the book, and it was disappointing to not really check back in with Tara to find out how she feels about the big decision she makes. To some degree this feels like a book where the stalker/jealous ex wins, because we don't get enough details about the outcome to see whether she gives in to all of his demands, or just the ones we can see. Pretty depressing messaging all around, in terms of a character's fate largely being taken out of her hands, and her life being stolen without recompense or even enough time with her to understand what it means in the end.