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A strange re-telling of Snow White

Poison by Sarah Pinborough

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Well, this was an odd little book.  As per the blurb:  An enticing contemporary retelling of the classic story of Snow White. While the the handsome prince, the jealous queen, the beautiful girl and of course the poison all appear, Sarah Pinborough’s charming and provocative spin on the story will captivate fans of the fairy tale all over again. I was a big fan of Once Upon a Time when it came out, with it’s unique view of fairy tale characters so I thought it might be interesting to see what this author did with it.  The copy I picked […]

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1/12/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:3 |

A slightly more realistic fairy tale

Snow White: A Graphic Novel by Matt Phelan

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[Note – this review contains spoilers] I had a few free minutes in the library, so I picked up this graphic novel version of Snow White. This takes us out of the normal fairy tale and sticks us in New York City in 1928. A young Samantha White, called “Snow”, loses her mother at a young age. Her father, a wealthy businessman, is dazzled by a famous actress and marries her 10 years after becoming a widower.  She sends the now teenaged Snow off to school.  She starts to see messages in the stock ticker tape, (perhaps illusions caused by […]

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12/10/2017 's CBR9 Review No:23 |

“The girls were wild for dancing, and nothing else. No hearts beat underneath those thin, bright dresses. They laughed like glass.”

The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine

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3.5 stars This is a very imaginative and clever re-telling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses fairy-tale set in Prohibition NYC. The princesses are flappers and their father is some kind of business magnate trying to protect his family legacy without a son, the poor man. He keeps them locked up in their large home to protect their virtue and reputation, because that’s a surefire way to earn the obedience of teenagers. Here’s the overview from Goodreads: “Jo, the firstborn, “The General” to her eleven sisters, is the only thing the Hamilton girls have in place of a mother. She is […]

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6/14/2017 's CBR9 Review No:44 |

Underwhelming

The Sleeper and the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

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This is a retelling of Sleeping Beauty, with some Snow White mixed in. Since I read it on my Kindle, I didn’t realize before I started that this is actually a sort of graphic novel, or maybe an illustrated short story? I’m not sure what it looks like in actual book form. I had just assumed it was a regular novel, but it’s not even 75 pages long. The Sleeper and the Spindle is the story of a queen, who sets out with three dwarf companions, to find a famous enchanted sleeping princess and try to wake her and break […]

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2/26/2017 's CBR9 Review No:8 |

There’s gotta be a Game of Thrones joke here somewhere

Winter by Marissa Meyer

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This is a pretty good story, but somehow I didn’t like a lot about it. The final fairy tale ends up being Snow White, and while Winter fits the general outline, her Prince Charming Jacin doesn’t quite make sense. His attachment to Winter and hers to him just doesn’t seem to have much of a foundation other than they kind of grew up together and he’s been around her entire life. The other thing I didn’t really like is how the heroes spent so much of the story fragmented, which means that certain parts drag badly, while others fly by. […]

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2/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:13 |

A fairy tale about salad as heroine

Cress by Marissa Meyer

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I have to admit, the title got me a little. I figured ‘Cress’ was short for something, but I would not have guessed “Crescent”; I was thinking something along the lines of ‘watercress’, which made no sense given that the model fairy tale this time is supposed to be Rapunzel. The other books have heroines whose names have some clear connection to the base story, so why this doesn’t is beyond me. In terms of enjoyment, Cress falls in between Cinder and Scarlet. 3.5 stars. Cress herself has a lot more personality than her fairy tale analogue, largely because her […]

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2/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:12 |

Red Really is My Color

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

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First reaction: much better than book 1. Second reaction: a lot like book 1 really. Scarlet is book 2 of the Lunar Chronicles series, and this installment is patterned supposedly on Little Red Riding Hood. The connection to Cinderella in Cinder was quite a bit more recognizable in terms of plot and character than the fairy tale connection is here. Maybe that’s why this one is a little better, especially in terms of character because ti doesn’t have to rely on the requirements of the original tale. Scarlet has a lot of the fairy tale elements, a girl with red […]

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2/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |

FFS WHYYYYYYYYY

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

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Who’s ready for some kvetching? Plot-wise, all you really need to know is that Heartless is the origin story of the Queen of Hearts, of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. So although you know how it’s going to end, here is a general SPOILER WARNING for the rest of this review, because I don’t want to dance around the details of what bugged me. The very biggest problem is that the heroine, Catherine Pinkteron, is an absolute mess of a character. To a certain extent, it’s very understandable why she is the way she is: she’s the daughter of nobles […]

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1/25/2017 's CBR9 Review No:5 |


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