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Faery Tales & Nightmares (2012)

by Melissa Marr(Favorite Author)

3.71 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0061852716 (ISBN13: 9780061852718)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

HarperCollins

review 1: This anthology of fantasy stories about half stories set in the world’ the author created in ‘Wicked Lovely’, using characters from that story. Some show back story, some things that happened after the last of those books, some are things that took place off stage. The other half are set in different realities, and these were the ones I really liked. ‘Love Struck” is about a human and a selchie falling in love and trying to avoid the traps that such couples usually run into. ‘Transistion’ shows us vampires, territorialism, and how frustrating it might be to be immortal. ‘Flesh for Comfort’ is a disturbing tale of what people will do for power and admiration. The ‘Wicked Lovely’ stories are entertaining even if you (like me) haven’t read the books, b... moreut they lack the impact of the others. They seem to fill in spots of characters lives rather than having earth shaking consequences. One thing all the stories have in common is that they are about change and coming to terms with those changes. Both humans and supernatural beings are forced to realize that to get the lives they want they will have to sacrifice some things and learn new methods of dealing with things, ways different from what the old ways dictate. In most of the stories these changes are for the good; in some, like ‘Flesh for Comfort’, maybe not so much. Beautiful prose that reminded me a lot of old fairy tales.
review 2: *No Spoilers*This book was okay. When I first went into it, I was expecting just a collection of short stories that I could understand. I didn't know that the majority of them were from the "Wicked Lovely" series. While I still read the whole book, a few of the stories were hard to understand and get into simply because I felt like I was jumping right into the action without really understanding anything.But, I did enjoy the stories- even the ones I didn't really understand. If you have read and liked the "Wicked Lovely" series I would pick this book up. Otherwise, I would probably not bother- like I said most of the stories are from the "Wicked Lovely" series and they are kinda hard to understand without having read those books. less

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