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Fairytales Slashed 1 (2010)

by Megan Derr(Favorite Author)

4.34 of 5 Votes: 3

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English

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Romance

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Less Than Three Press

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Fairytales Slashed

review 1: Short stories are like candies: you have to like the taste right from the start or you just take another one. I was never able to switch from Megan Derr's fairytales to something else. To stay with the picture Ms.Derr's fairytales are mostly more than candies. They are more pralines. She captures you right from the start with an opening smooth like chocolate and before you realize it she mixed some new twists into the old story like spices into a truffle, some light and refreshing like mint, some hot like cinnamon or mysterious like taste of dark red wine, some dominant like marzipan or a hard hazelnut … and now here's not only one praline but a whole box of it. Make your choice :) Of course as in every box there are flavors you like better and some you don't need again.... more For me I could easily do without Tobias but then some stories later I got confused that a Troll can get to my heart so easily but it did and I couldn't get enough of a certain Half-Goblin - that story seemed to be more than a praline, it was more like a desert served as the last course of a enjoyable dinner but somehow I missed the courses before i.e. I'd like to know more about Thorley, about his life before he meet Geoffrey. At least there's another story later on where he appears again … that's another case I like about this book: some of its stories are linked, refering to another, are sequels - so until the end you still can hope that your favorite taste might appear again in another praline of that delicious box.
review 2: I adored this collection of fairy tales! They're all just so beautiful and sweet and hopeful and... well, everything fairy tales should be. I know some other reviewers said that they get repetitive, so perhaps my experience was skewed because I was anticipating that, but I found the stories to be wonderfully varied and unique. Yes, they all have the same sweet predictability of the HEA, but that's one of the things I loved about them: no angst!I thought the length of each piece was great, also. Just perfect to sneak in-between longer stories that might be angsty or disturbing or depressing or to lighten the spirit before bed.And I loved that some of the stories overlapped enough to give us HEA's for side characters from previous stories. So much fun to get to go back and revisit the older stories like that. less

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