Review: Super Heroes
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 10 1, 2013
Not particularly good.SPOILERS!!!!So, yeah, on the good end, I totally got two of the stories Hunter is a part of.  But... I didn't really like anything else.  One problem is that my vision of the Huntsman is different from the authors.  She sees his act of saving Snow White as heroic.  Well, no, I saw it as heroic too, but not in the way Hale saw it as.  Here are the two different options.  In my version I saw the Huntsman as a man who had been told by the person who controlled his life and kill him in a second to kill Snow White.  He resigned himself to killing Snow White in order to save himself and the family he probably had, but when faced with the reality he found he wasn't able to do something so evil so he sent her away before he convinced himself again that he had to kill her to save himself and his family.  He did something good, at great risk to himself, with the knowledge that he had to hide it or he would die.  The other option, closer to what Hale I imagine meant, was that the Huntsman never meant to kill Snow White, instead he led her out of the castle intent on the pig heart not only to save himself, but to keep Snow White alive.  And she ended up with dwarves either because he didn't realize that leaving a sheltered girl in a dangerous woods could be deadly, or he led her to live with the dwarves.Again, with Little Red I saw the woodsman as a man who saw some evil happening and was did a spontaneous good deed because he was a good person and he knew how to save his neighbors.  In Hale's version he was a good deeder who as all good characters found himself in a situation where he could save someone.  In another way of seeing it, my version saw it as a spontaneous good deed or a normal person while Hale's Huntsmen are the type who go out specifically to do good deeds and are already to help a person at any time.I think this would bother me less if they didn't take such ridiculous posses.  Why are we adding Super hero parody in a fairy tale setting.  While they do have some parallels, they aren't connected in my mind enough to put a family in there specifically to deal with this.  Shouldn't this be a good and evil thing.  And it is, in a really annoying, not what I meant way at all.  What is Hale's deal with making them all vegetarians.  I get the vegetarian things, I even like it with Raven because to me, her vegetarian diet is her trying too hard, but all of them??? Or at least this many??? Apple, fine, she talks to animals.  And that's the thing, the animals in this world are probably more intelligent/human like then ours , which you can use to toot the vegetarian horn.  Except you are doing it in the most lazy way possible.  All the good characters are already vegetarians as proof they are good, instead of having one discover and realize why in their own belief of morals in what is right and wrong leads them to not eat meat.  Another, the reason that Hale highlighted Hunter as being vegetarian is that they are cute and fluffy, I'm not saying he doesn't have a deeper reason, but that isn't what is brought up when looking at the traps.And seriously, this is how you go about being a vegetarian Hunter?  Because, you are kind of showing your cowardly side in this, and screwing your parents.  You admit that eating meat is your parents main source of food.  That is how they feed themselves.  You need to tell your parents the reason you disapprove of eating meat at the very least, you owe them that.  You also need to give me a better reason, from your own mind or mouth that you find vegetarianism besides you like vegetarian food better.Also, you're story doesn't specifically say you don't have a girlfriend/wife.  In fact, your father is married and a girl who works with animals in the woods is probably perfect for you, because guess what... it doesn't say in the stories you have to kill and eat animals, it's implied especially with in the Snow White he is called the Huntsman, but their last name is a horrible pun, in the story he would have to kill one pig, yes, but it doesn't say the Huntsmen killed a thousand animals before or after (and if it's before, he probably helped his father trap animals).  Which, once again, or for the first time... what part of their parent's stories are they following?  Because it seems like they are only following their parents official story.  Or is Raven going to renew her mother's curse on Wonderland, and if she is does that mean Wonderland is going to lose that curse for a while.  So are they only following their parent's official stories and how exactly do they have to follow them... are they going to follow it to the point that they do the exact same things as their parents did even when it comes to raising kids, how they eat, how they get ready in the morning?  Please expand on this, because in that case Ashlynn can't have her store, and Briar is screwed.I've written enough, hopefully this isn't foreshadowing for how good the book is.  I don't expect a masterpiece, but I expect something more thought out and true to the fairy tale vein then this.