Review: Great Storyteller!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
Davonna Juroe is a wonderful storyteller, and her slightly dark take on the Red Riding Hood story completely pulled me in. HOWEVER I have to question some of the historical aspects. Example: Chocolate was featured in the book, and was described as boxed and eaten as a candy very similar to today's boxed chocolates, but to my knowledge chocolate would have been available only in a drink form in its early stages at this time (1700's), as the solidifying process wasn't invented until much later. Also, the characters danced what was described as similar to a waltz. I could be wrong, but I believe that form of dance wasn't around at that time, and when it was introduced sometime in the 1800's it was quite scandalous because of the close contact and amount of touching the couple engaged in. This is splitting hairs, but at the time it jarred me out of the story a little bit. Great storytelling though, and I will definitely read more from this Author in the future!