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Summary: Thought-provoking, clever, fun take on fairy tales!
Review: Cleverly weaving in lots of familiar fairy tales, the author also reminds the reader that life in the 90s is NOT a fairy tale, and, often, not even fair! But Felicity to the rescue -- a Godmother with just enough powers to make all the interwoven stories in this wonderful book have happy endings. I hope that Ms. Scarborough keeps writing more and more books in this series -- I'm reading "The Godmother's Apprentice" now and can't wait to get into "The Godmother's Web," the third in the series. I can't put them down, but I don't want to read them because then they'll be all gone!!
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Summary: The Godmother
Review: I am an avid science fiction reader and was looking for something new. Elizabeth Scarborough had co-written several books with Anne McCaffrey, which I had enjoyed, I was looking for some other books that she had written when I found The Godmother. The book is a very interesting blend of SF, current urban political realities, magic and an updated version of the Grimm's fairy tales with a liberal dash of humor.Scarborough does an excellent job of developing real life characters. This book is both light hearted and thought provoking. I can't wait to get started on The Godmother's Apprentice.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: I couldn't put it down. Read the "Godmother's Apprentice" right after it - and was really sad to part with the characters after four days. Can't wait to get the "Godmother's Web"!
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Summary: One of the best reads in along time
Review: I don't know how she does it...but she does! This book brings old favorites into a modern setting without pushing the line. This book gets better with every reading! I keep noticing something that didn't quite "hit" the time before...The same runs true to with "The Godmother's Apprentice" and "The Godmother's Web."
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Summary: A must read for fairy tale lovers.
Review: I don't know how she does it...but she does! This book brings old favorites into a modern setting without pushing the line. This book gets better with every reading! I keep noticing something that didn't quite "hit" the time before...The same runs true to with "The Godmother's Apprentice" and "The Godmother's Web."
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Summary: An excellent, charming and thoughtful fairy tale for the 90s
Review: I picked the Godmother up on the spur of the moment, in desperate need of something to read at work during a dry spell. What I found was an intricate tapestry of several classic fairytales, updated for Seattle in the 1990's. Rose, a frustrated, overworked and underappreciated social worker, makes a facetious wish for a fairy godmother to help her beleaguered city. What she gets is Dame Felicity Fortune, Godmother at Large, True Love a specialty. With a little help from a talking cat, a killer toad, and a very nice policeman named Fred, Rose and her Godmother are out to save Seattle, one fairytale at a time!!!
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Summary: Wonderfull
Review: In traditional fairy tales, fairy godmothers show up when they are least expected but most needed, to right wrongs and assist those in peril. Enter Felicity Fortune. Summoned to Seattle by a sweet but burned-out young social worker named Rose, she sets out to solve problems both modern and ageless with magic and kindness. You see, there are many young people in danger in the city. Hank and Gigi have been abandoned by their mother and kidnapped by a child molester. Cindy has just been fired from her job by her own stepsisters, and booted out of her family home. Snohomish is hiding in the woods from a hit man hired by her jealous supermodel stepmom. Dico is living on the streets, unable to get any breaks...until he meets a magic cat. Any of this sound familiar? LOL In this entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking novel, we see that today's problems are nothing new, and that a little kindness goes a long way. One caveat: Scarborough can get a little sledgehammer-ish with her political views. While I agree with most of these opinions, sometimes the character of Rose talks more like an editorial than a normal human being making conversation. Still, I found this relatively easy to overlook. Overall, I recommend _The Godmother_ to anyone who likes this sort of thing.
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Summary: Fairy Godmothers in today's world? You bet!
Review: In traditional fairy tales, fairy godmothers show up when they are least expected but most needed, to right wrongs and assist those in peril. Enter Felicity Fortune. Summoned to Seattle by a sweet but burned-out young social worker named Rose, she sets out to solve problems both modern and ageless with magic and kindness. You see, there are many young people in danger in the city. Hank and Gigi have been abandoned by their mother and kidnapped by a child molester. Cindy has just been fired from her job by her own stepsisters, and booted out of her family home. Snohomish is hiding in the woods from a hit man hired by her jealous supermodel stepmom. Dico is living on the streets, unable to get any breaks...until he meets a magic cat. Any of this sound familiar? LOL In this entertaining and sometimes thought-provoking novel, we see that today's problems are nothing new, and that a little kindness goes a long way. One caveat: Scarborough can get a little sledgehammer-ish with her political views. While I agree with most of these opinions, sometimes the character of Rose talks more like an editorial than a normal human being making conversation. Still, I found this relatively easy to overlook. Overall, I recommend _The Godmother_ to anyone who likes this sort of thing.
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Summary: deft twists of fairy tales and legends
Review: It was such a treat to not only read a modern day fairy tale but to pick out the classic fairy tales entwined within each character's world. Ms.Scarborough's writing is clean, humorous and lighthearted with a well defined domain of Godmotherdom. A great start to this trilogy!
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Summary: A fun fairy tale to tickle your imagination!
Review: It was such a treat to not only read a modern day fairy tale but to pick out the classic fairy tales entwined within each character's world. Ms.Scarborough's writing is clean, humorous and lighthearted with a well defined domain of Godmotherdom. A great start to this trilogy!
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