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Rapunzel Let Down: A Fairy Tale Retold (2013)

by Regina Doman(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Chesterton Press

series

A Fairy Tale Retold

review 1: True to the original Rapunzel story, i.e., not light-hearted and only a fairy tale in that the principals eventually get together. It doesn't seem like a typical YA book. It deals with statutory rape, drugging teenagers into acquiescence, an attempt to force a girl to get an abortion, kidnapping, murder, slaughter of animals, beatings, homosexual abuse in prison, attempted suicide, vigilante justice, etc. Also, any YA girl that reads it will learn that you can't expect the average young man to share your bed, a la Edward Cullen and Peeta, without him wanting to have sex, which can have life-changing consequences; here even the "happily ever after" involves taking care of toddlers on the wedding night.
review 2: Intense and longer than the others. I will say t... morehat it held my interest, and it was a little less forced and the conversations a little more natural. I believed the characters better than I have some of the characters in the other books, but the fact that many of her villains are so excessively villainous and even repetitive makes me pause to wonder if that's okay because that's the style and genre of her books or if its alright to hope for something different next time. I mean, her villains have become almost predictable – there is NOTHING they cannot and will not do. And like in her other books, there were passages that seemed preachy and unnatural. But I finished this book in two days because I couldn't put it down – it earns points for that. I will definitely be going back to reassess her writing, but as far as the story goes, I was impressed overall. less

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