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Summary: Your usual FLB fare
Review: This book, a retelling of nine fairytales, is much like your usual FLB fare: phantasmagoric characters, ... love and poetic, evocative langugage drawing a somewhat difficult-to-follow plot.In other words, fabulous. The stories are roughly retellings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Rose White Rose Red, Hansel & Gretel, Beauty and the Beast and The Snow Queen. Except for a few cases, the retellings find the originals greatly improved upon. All except perhaps Snow (SW) are set in modern cities, FLB world of shifing colors and lovers. My personal favorites are the sad, passioante, evocative Ice (TSQ) and the suprising Wolf (LLRH). Each story has its own magic. However, this book does have its low points, such as the lackluster Snow, the extremely hard to follow Bones (H&G), and Tiny (T), which is just plain odd. Tiny's height makes the whole story fairly absurd, although it is decent. Overall, this is an excellent book I would recommend to anyone, especially FLB fans.
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Summary: Your usual FLB fare
Review: This book, a retelling of nine fairytales, is much like your usual FLB fare: phantasmagoric characters, homosexual love and poetic, evocative langugage drawing a somewhat difficult-to-follow plot. In other words, fabulous. The stories are roughly retellings of Snow White, Thumbelina, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Rose White Rose Red, Hansel & Gretel, Beauty and the Beast and The Snow Queen. Except for a few cases, the retellings find the originals greatly improved upon. All except perhaps Snow (SW) are set in modern cities, FLB world of shifing colors and lovers. My personal favorites are the sad, passioante, evocative Ice (TSQ) and the suprising Wolf (LLRH). Each story has its own magic. However, this book does have its low points, such as the lackluster Snow, the extremely hard to follow Bones (H&G), and Tiny (T), which is just plain odd. Tiny's height makes the whole story fairly absurd, although it is decent. Overall, this is an excellent book I would recommend to anyone, especially FLB fans.
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Summary: Fantasy and Reality Make Colorful Blend
Review: This is the first book by Francesca Lia Block I've ever read. It was clearly a good choice. This book takes fairy tales and modernizes them, adding homosexuality, rape and tough love into the mix to provide a good read without the "sugar coating" This book has made me rethink fairy tales in a way I never thought was possible. All of the fairy tales, which have simple, short names such as Snow and Glass (Snow White and Cinderella) are their own entities in this book yet flow in a fantastic way. I recommend this book to many girls over the age of twelve.
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Summary: TR&TB Review
Review: This is the retelling of ten fairy tales. Some of them are set in present time, some not. Block's writing is lyrical and the some of the stories are almost surreal. The unconventiality of the retellings is appealing and I recommend this to any fairy tale/fantasy lover.
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Summary: Dark, delicious rough magic!
Review: While Block's intended audience may indeed be young adults, some of her tales here are perhaps too dark even for angst and ennui-filled youth. There are also sinister echoes of skewed sexuality resounding through many of the stories. All of that is certainly not to say that the tales are in any way poorly written or unpleasant reading. That seems to be Block's great strength as a writer, to describe and narrate evil without morbidity and with a graceful and beautiful prose. She's very successfully un-Disneyfied these tales and returned to them their original rawness. Glass, Wolf, and Ice (her takes on Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, and the Snow Queen) are particularly outstanding. Readers who have enjoyed fairy tales in any of their variants and especially those who liked the wonderful and bountiful retellings collected by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling have much to love in this slender volume.
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Summary: Beautiful! It made me cry!
Review: Yes, i actually did cry from this book. I'm not the type to cry from things happening in my life, more from my thoughts about myself and from movies and books. This book made me cry out of the beauty of its writting. Its amazing, the story wasnt a boo-hoo story but it was just written so wonderfully that my eyes started to water! I suggest getting this book, its wonderful! It's a bunch of short stories of faerie tales. She retells them in much more believable ways, and it feels like shes actually explaining them to you so they make sense. They were all wonderful.
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Summary: pretty
Review: Yes, these stories are NOT necessarily for young adults, but I would recommend them for anyone with a mature outlook on life. The language is poetic, as is all of the author's work. These are creative retellings. My personal favorite was "The Wolf." The stories are more like sketches or dreams. Again, I found this very Pretty, very stylized.
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