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Summary: Excellent twists to familiar stories
Review: A must for anyone who loves a good twist to a good fairytale. Tanith Lee's stories will make you think and give you goosebumps
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Summary: A Good Read
Review: About 20 years or so ago, I first sat down on a bookstore floor to begin the book, and hunted it down for myself years later. Some of the tales so haunted me that I had to find them and reread them to see if I recalled them rightly, or had confused them. Tanith Lee's style makes for a perfectly warped yet new angle to see fairy tales from. Was Snow White's stepmother Queen so wicked? Was Cinderella so abused? Did the Brothers Grimm ever make you ponder such things? If not, the Sisters Grimmer will!Please be warned, if the macabre and morbid are not your cup of tea, you won't like this. But if you can stretch your mind, allow other images and/or interpretations to be possible, lush and frighening that they might be - then I highly recommend the Princess-Royal of Fantasy. :> And if you've tried her Paradys books, that will prepare somewhat for this - not always as colorful, but as starkly mad. Enjoy!
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Summary: O yes, it's Grimmer! :> but well worth it
Review: About 20 years or so ago, I first sat down on a bookstore floor to begin the book, and hunted it down for myself years later. Some of the tales so haunted me that I had to find them and reread them to see if I recalled them rightly, or had confused them. Tanith Lee's style makes for a perfectly warped yet new angle to see fairy tales from. Was Snow White's stepmother Queen so wicked? Was Cinderella so abused? Did the Brothers Grimm ever make you ponder such things? If not, the Sisters Grimmer will! Please be warned, if the macabre and morbid are not your cup of tea, you won't like this. But if you can stretch your mind, allow other images and/or interpretations to be possible, lush and frighening that they might be - then I highly recommend the Princess-Royal of Fantasy. :> And if you've tried her Paradys books, that will prepare somewhat for this - not always as colorful, but as starkly mad. Enjoy!
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Summary: Truly Grim Yet Beautiful Fairy Tale Retellings
Review: Exploring the other side to many classic fairy tales in a fluid and sharp prose style, this book is unforgettable high art.
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Summary: A Good Read
Review: I first came across Tanith Lee in my senior writing class in high school. We were reading stories about Cinderella and had to review her story "When The Clock Strikes". I loved the story because it so different from anything else Ive read. Her stories are engrossing and actually make the reader look at a story from a different light.
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Summary: This book is a MUST for fans of new takes on old fairytales
Review: I took a cutting of the title story, "Red As Blood," to the State Speech Tournament in Prose Reading. Tanith Lee's beautiful prose is at its height in this collection; even the stories that weren't my favorites were so wonderfully descriptive I couldn't help but read them through. I think the best stories in this are "Red As Blood" (Snow White), "When the Clock Strikes" (Cinderella), and "The Golden Rope" (Rapunzel). The only reason I don't give this book a 10 is that one or two of the other stories weren't as interesting as the rest, which was a bit of a letdown. However, this is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: This book is a MUST for fans of new takes on old fairytales
Review: I took a cutting of the title story, "Red As Blood," to the State Speech Tournament in Prose Reading. Tanith Lee's beautiful prose is at its height in this collection; even the stories that weren't my favorites were so wonderfully descriptive I couldn't help but read them through. I think the best stories in this are "Red As Blood" (Snow White), "When the Clock Strikes" (Cinderella), and "The Golden Rope" (Rapunzel). The only reason I don't give this book a 10 is that one or two of the other stories weren't as interesting as the rest, which was a bit of a letdown. However, this is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Fairytales through a glass darkly
Review: One of the most original collections of fairytales that I have read. It begins with the tale of the Pied Piper. What happens when a god descends to the flaws of mortals? Snow White is a less than generic vampire tale, with a strong mideval christian cast to it. The prose is crisp and stark and strangely beautiful like the rest of tanith lee's work, underlying meanings throb in the thicket of words like white flowers.
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Summary: Gothic re-tellings of classic fairytales
Review: Tanith Lee provides a darker, more gothic feel to the classic fairytales we all know: Snow White is a creature of the night in "Red As Blood;" Little Red Riding Hood has meets a very different kind of wolf in "Wolfland;" Rapunzel's prince is more sinister in "The Golden Rope;" plus six othe re-tellings. Each one takes place in a specific time and place on Earth, mostly in the past - with the one exception being "Beauty," Lee's re-telling of Beauty and the Beast, set on Earth in the distant future. Even thought the titles of the stories have changed, Lee makes it easy to figure out which story is being re-rold. It's a bit too dark for children, but for fans of horror and gothic tales, this makes a great addition to your reading list.
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Summary: Best Beast Around
Review: There are many delights among these mostly darkly twisted versions of the old familiar fairy tales. But the best by far, in my opinion, is the absolutely fanastic rendition of the Beauty and the Beast tale. This one isn't cutesy frosted Disney candy with dancng teacups and such; rather it is a compelling and powerful story that goes smoothly beyond fairy-tale trappings and blends science fiction/fantasy with a strangely compelling romance. I don't want to give away the plot twist--because therein lies the fun.
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