Review: Incomplete and predictable
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 07 11, 2013
I think the author had a number of stories in her head, most of which didn't make it to the printed page. Ditto a lot of choices. "Should I go Regency? Elizabethan? Should there be a coachman? A mean prince? Perhaps a hovel?"How about that deux ex machine of the ballgown showing up ruined by the tailor?But wait. There's more. The coachman is <gasp!> in love with the protagonist. They drive away happily ever after.It's the vogue to write fairy tales aslant right now. "Wow. Cinderella as evil stepsister. That's a novel idea!" But it's been done much, much better by others already. And yes, I know it's flash fiction - but still, flash doesn't have to be so dismally predictable, or so lacking in character development that makes sense. I'm glad it was free, but stories like this give free goods a bad name.