by Garth Nix, Michael Cadnum, Nancy Farmer, Jane Yolen, Ellen Datlow, Catherynne M. Valente, Ellen Kushner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kelly Link, Terri Windling, Midori Snyder, Wendy Froud, Peter S. Beagle, Joseph Stanton, Neil Gaiman, Delia Sherman, Holly Black
This is a fantastic anthology that's based on fairytales told from the point of view of the villains. It's also great for both younger and older readers; I loved it, and got a lot out of it, although I'm older than the targeted audience. Then again, Ellen Datlow is a top-notch editor and garners...
I've been slightly p.oed even since Datlow and Windling stopped editiing thier adult collections and focused on YA collections. Now, I understand YA is hot (though most of it seems slightly silly), but still. Anyway, with this collection I think I understand why they did it or perhaps I figured ou...
I said somewhere recently that I had never given a multi-author collection of short stories anything more than three stars. Here, I will make that statement false. It's just that usually there is too much comme ci, comme ça in any given collection. But I hadn't read a Ellen Datlow/Terri Windling col...
As short story collections often are, this is a mixed bag. It's a great start on fractured fairy tales for the midgrade crowd, though.
Troll’s Eye View is a collection of stories revisiting well-known fairy tales–Rumpelstiltskin, Hansel and Gretel, Molly and the Giants–often from the villain’s point of view. It’s a mixed bag of stories: some are slightly skewed re-tellings, some are realistic stories informed by the themes and stru...
This collection was both different and better than I was expecting. I actually got this as a gift for someone, but once it arrived I couldn’t resist it. (Don’t worry – it still looks brand new! Shh!) Anyway, I believe I was expecting a rather dreary and predictable collection of tales from villain...
The stories are mostly enjoyable but slight. The best is Kelly Link's disturbing and complex "The Cinderella Game"; I also liked Catherynne M. Valente's "A Delicate Architecture" and Holly Black's "The Boy Who Cried Wolf."
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