Reviews and Blog Posts: fairy tales

Some kind of fairy tale : a novel

by Graham Joyce

DPL Rating:
5
Reviewer:
Brett
Reviewed on:
January 14, 2013
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Graham Joyce returns with an unsettling novel about a teenager who shows up on her parents’ doorstep twenty years after she disappeared without a trace. Tara Martin claims she was abducted to an enchanted fairyland and, eerily, appears no older than when she vanished. For her, she insists, only six...

The book of lost things

by John Connolly

DPL Rating:
4
Reviewer:
Brett
Reviewed on:
June 25, 2012
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Dark, twisted, and lots of fun, this fairy tale for grown ups is beautifully written, with rich characters and a truly scary villain. David, still reeling from his mother's death, isolates himself in his attic bedroom surrounded by his books, which begin to whisper to him. Fans of Pan's...

Fairytales Retold, reshaped and reimagined

Submitted by Emily on June 13, 2012 - 9:27am
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Cover: The Rose and the Beast, by Francesca Lia Block

Wicked, the amazing Broadway hit came to Denver April-May, I have seen the show, I have read the books and I LOVE Wicked, and now Snow White and the Huntsman is tearing it up at the box office but what about other lesser known retold stories?

I have a fascination with stories told from the outsider's perspective, or stories told with an unexpected slant. It has always been a dream of mine to get a degree that studies fairytales just so I could spend years and years and years reading and rereading the same stories told different ways, but I digress.

Princess of the wild swans

by Diane Zahler

DPL Rating:
4
Reviewer:
Rachel
Reviewed on:
June 12, 2012
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Princess Muriel’s happy and carefree childhood changes dramatically when her widowed father, the king, unexpectedly marries a beautiful but evil woman who Muriel instinctively distrusts. Shortly after the new Queen arrives in their home, Muriel’s six beloved brothers disappear.  The king, bewitched by his new wife, does not believe Muriel...

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