Fairyland (3 books in series)
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review 1: This was adorable! But it was much more Grimm's style than I expected it to be. The author really borrowed a lot from the storytelling traditions of old--relatively little description, almost no exposition at the beginning of the story, uniformly practical language and sentence s...
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review 1: This is a lovely lovely book, full of whimsy and enchantment and imagination. Valente has a wonderfully delicious mind that produces all sorts of fantasical senarios, characters, and objects. I am arrving at this a little backwards (which I don't think the author would mind) as t...
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review 1: This third installment starts out beautifully and it has some really poetic, touching elements but it fizzles out big time. It's a little frustrating because Valente is such a talented writer but she goes overboard and burdens her stories with too many frills and weirdnesses, wit...