I was already poised to like this book, past feelings about Sarah J. Maas aside. It’s a Beauty and the Beast/Ballad of Tam Lin hybrid retelling, and unless you make some sort of grave mistake, you’ve already got the outline of the story ready to go (tried and true over hundreds of years and variations), and it’s pretty hard to mess that up. And she doesn’t! I thought the story worked well as a combo B&B/Tam-Lin/original elements mish-mash. The first half is mostly Beauty and the […]
Janet sucks, and so did this
Having inhaled a couple of Seanan McGuire’s which had me jonesing for more fairytales, when I came across this, apparently a Modern Fairytale and cult classic as well as having a cover that would have looked at home on any 70s prog rock album, it looked like I’d found my fix. Sadly, it turned out that this was not the kind of book I had been looking for… Supposedly a retelling of the ballad of Tam Lin, Dean apparently saved all of this for the […]