"Like a Red, Red Rose" has a very traditional feel to it.Apparently I just wasn't in the mood for these. I found myself skipping around and unable to settle and enjoy the stories, so I decided to return it.ILL copy
Like most anthologies, some good stories, some just okay, some really not for me. I picked it up because it includes some authors I generally like, but their stories didn't out to be the ones I preferred.
This anthology contains truly the worst Tanith Lee story I have ever read, and I've read quite a bit of Tanith Lee since I discovered her in my early teens. Yuck, it was like reading an effort by a juvenile... ok, analogies fail me.The other stories might be better, but I think I'll shelve it for t...
This is the fifth? in a series of books comprised of short stories, all of which are re-tellings of fairy tales for adults. I wasn’t very wild about this one. Most of the stories seemed to go for the shock value more than anything else.
This is the first fairy tale collection that Datlow and Windling did. It includes several intersting and very dark (and adult) retelling of stories. Overall the collection is excellent. Stand-outs include Yolen's dark poem about Cinderella, "Stalking Beans" about Jack and the Beanstalk. A wonder...
One of Datlow & Windling's excellent series of anthologies of retold/reimagined fairy tales. Terri Windling's one of the only people I've ever written out & out fan mail to - - I'm just that totally in favor of everything she's worked to espouse in literature...if you haven't seen her website, check...
I didn't like all of the stories in this anthology but I did like most, and liked them well enough that overall I highly recommend this one. I particularly enjoy fairy tale retellings, and several of these were very inventive twists on old tales.
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