Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes
Format: kindle
ISBN:
9780985327828
ASIN: B009K903OK
Publish date: October 16th 2012
Publisher: Month9Books, LLC
Pages no: 342
Edition language: English
True to the title, these short stories are dark. Don’t go into it expecting warm fuzzies and happy endings, because they don’t exist. That didn’t make them unlikable, though! These stories are full of myths, magic and a lot of imagination.What I love about collections of short stories is that it giv...
One of the better anthologies I've read. My absolute favourite story in this collection is Life in a Shoe by Heidi R. Kling, one of the more faithful stories to it's original nursery rhyme -"There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe".As Blue as the Sky and Just as Old by Nina Berry ★☆☆☆☆Based on "T...
This review is also featured on my blog. I received an ebook ARC of this book through NetGalley.Bilingual review: ENG/RO EnglishI am one of those people who sometimes get interested in a book by seeing its cover. This was the case with "Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhy...
4.5/5An eerie collection of stories adapted from famous Mother Goose Rhymes, Two and Twenty Dark Tales gave me chills and some of the stories will haunt me for some time! It's amazing how authors have subverted the nature of the rhymes to something even darker than I could have ever imagined, and th...
Can also be read on The Social Potato.Dark retellings of Mother Goose rhymes? Well, sign me up, s'il vous plaît! Thank you NetGalley for the copy :)There are a lot of stories in this anthology written by many talented authors who I applaud for successfully adapting nursery rhymes into dark stories t...