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Two and Twenty Dark Tales: Dark Retellings of Mother Goose Rhymes - Community Reviews back

by Georgia McBride, Nina Berry, Suzanne Lazear, Sarwat Chadda
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Coffee Bean Bookshelf
Coffee Bean Bookshelf rated it 12 years ago
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...
Literary Ames
Literary Ames rated it 12 years ago
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...
adelacacovean
adelacacovean rated it 12 years ago
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...
Speculating on SpecFic
Speculating on SpecFic rated it 12 years ago
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...
The Social Potato Reviews
The Social Potato Reviews rated it 12 years ago
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...
Reading Under the Willow Tree
Reading Under the Willow Tree rated it 12 years ago
For this review and more visit my blog Two and Twenty Dark Tales is an anthology made up of 20 stories by various different authors.I really enjoyed this anthology, I must admit that I was unsure about it at first but I am glad I took the plunge and read it. I am not all that familiar with nursery...
Feelingfictional
Feelingfictional rated it 12 years ago
I think everyone must be familiar with at least one Mother Goose nursery rhyme, children have been reciting these rhymes in the playground for hundreds of years so even if you don't realise it I'm sure you'll recognise some of them. In the Two and Twenty Dark Tales anthology some of today's most pop...
My Library in the Making
My Library in the Making rated it 12 years ago
Actual rating: 3.5(This review was originally posted at My Library in the Making.)Two and Twenty Dark Tales is probably the best title ever because it tells exactly what the book is. And although I didn't grow up to Mother Goose rhymes - except for Jack and Jill because, seriously, what kid hasn't e...
Belle's Bookshelf
Belle's Bookshelf rated it 12 years ago
3.5 stars. This collection of short stories reimagines the nursery rhymes we all grew up with, giving them a "dark" twist. I was expecting some pretty dark stories, considering how creepy some of the original rhymes are (there's lots of talk of falling and breaking bits and missing limbs and all sor...
chapterseldomread
chapterseldomread rated it 12 years ago
I assumed this was going to take the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose and expand them into short story form however these are mainly complete reinterpretations with elements of the original nursery rhyme. It was a little dissapointing if I'm honest. However, once I got over that, there are some good...
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