Review: Fantastic and Funny
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2013
When I started reading Zo White and the Seven Morphs, I wasn't sure what I was getting into.  The label by Silkstone was that the book was a "Fractured Fairytale" and part of a series.  Labeled as humor, I thought maybe I was getting myself into a parody book-- which if done right can be fantastic, but often times they fall flat with forced humor and silly plots.From page one I realized that I was not reading your run-of-the-mill parody story about Snow White.  In fact, most of the time it didn't resemble the story of Snow White at all.  It was a murder mystery, and a lot of the humor was subtle.  To tell the truth, I hate the "humor" books (or humor anything) where the jokes are so obvious they might as well come with a laugh-track to tell you when it's supposed to be funny.I didn't have that problem with this book.  Sure, some parts were obvious and a little outlandish, but not in a bad way.  It flowed really well, and the story had a plot that held its own really well.  I was very impressed.The story was told first person, which in my opinion is hard to do very well, but she held her own and even with the story first person it didn't take away from the secondary characters at all.  My only critique of the book was that there were moments when I found the prose to get a little redundant in telling the story.  There were passages that didn't do a lot of "showing" and it drew me out of the story from time to time.However it was a great read, it was cute, humorous, but the writing was strong and the plot was great.  It's a series I could definitely follow, and for that the book is getting a strong four of five stars and I can't wait to read the other books Silkstone has written.