Helpful Score: 3
I loved Into the Woods, the Steven Sondheim musical, was horribly disappointed by Shrek the Third and love Zorcerer of Zo. So this novel, a story about what happened to Cinderella, Snow White and Sleeping Beauty in "the happily ever after" is my kind of book.
Hines steals from the original source material, so its a bit darker. Talia (Sleeping Beauty) was raped to waken her from child birth, and a lot of her nature stems from this. Snow White (whose character name I can't recall) is a matricide (and was run out of her kingdom for it). Cinderella (Danielle Whiteshore, nee de Glas), has to deal with a dead step mother, and two stepsisters who were pretty badly maimed in their schemes, plus attacked by birds at her wedding. On the plus side, Danielle did come out ahead with the Prince, a wedding and an elevation in status.
The book opens with an attack by one of the stepsisters, Charlotte, wielding great magical power that nearly kills Danielle, if it weren't for Talia. After that, they learn the prince (Armand) is missing and the game is afoot! The trail leads to fairy town, which is surreal. It still bears the scar of a war with the humans generations ago and operates under a very different set of rules than Lorindar (the human kingdom).
Its a good book, not great, but good. I liked it and am likely to read the sequels Mermaid's Madness and Red Hood's Revenge.
Hines steals from the original source material, so its a bit darker. Talia (Sleeping Beauty) was raped to waken her from child birth, and a lot of her nature stems from this. Snow White (whose character name I can't recall) is a matricide (and was run out of her kingdom for it). Cinderella (Danielle Whiteshore, nee de Glas), has to deal with a dead step mother, and two stepsisters who were pretty badly maimed in their schemes, plus attacked by birds at her wedding. On the plus side, Danielle did come out ahead with the Prince, a wedding and an elevation in status.
The book opens with an attack by one of the stepsisters, Charlotte, wielding great magical power that nearly kills Danielle, if it weren't for Talia. After that, they learn the prince (Armand) is missing and the game is afoot! The trail leads to fairy town, which is surreal. It still bears the scar of a war with the humans generations ago and operates under a very different set of rules than Lorindar (the human kingdom).
Its a good book, not great, but good. I liked it and am likely to read the sequels Mermaid's Madness and Red Hood's Revenge.
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