Archive for the ‘retold fairy tale’ Category

The Looking Glass Wars

Alice in Wonderland is one of those books, at least for me, that was fun to read as a child, but then when I reread it as an adult, it had me wondering if  Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll) wasn’t a but touched.  In The Looking Glass Wars, Frank Beddor takes this classic children’s tale [...]

June 24, 2010   Posted in: Young Adult, fantasy, fiction, retold fairy tale  No Comments

Fairy Tale by Cyn Balog

I love the concept, I adore the plot, but the execution…not so much. The first person narrator in this novel suffers from the same malaise as Bella Swan in the Twilight series…a crippling lack of self-confidence and horrible self-image, cutting herself down while aggrandizing and idolizing her boyfriend in the same breath. Ick. I have [...]

July 14, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Young Adult, fiction, retold fairy tale  No Comments

The Bloody Chamber

I have mixed feelings about this one. While I tend to love any work that re-envisions fairy tales, this one is just a bit over the top. While I can overlook the sexual content when I’m drawn into the story or when it is particularly appropriate, this collection just doesn’t do it for me. I [...]

September 17, 2007   Posted in: fiction, retold fairy tale  No Comments

Tam Lin

I’m a little torn about this book. I wasn’t completely happy with it, but, in a way, it redeemed itself in the end. First, the warning: the novel contains somewhat objectionable content, but considering the setting, this content is appropriate. The novel is set in the 1970s on a college campus. While author Pamela Dean [...]

March 20, 2007   Posted in: fiction, retold fairy tale  One Comment

Bound

I’ve absolutely adored retold fairy tales ever since I took a fairy tale class for my MA degree. (Yes, it was a real class, and yes, we did real work, though it was perhaps the most fun I ever had taking a literature course. The only class that even came close to that was the [...]

February 24, 2007   Posted in: fiction, retold fairy tale  No Comments