Review: Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin That Has Potential But Fell a Little Short
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 25, 2011
Rumpel follows several people but is based around the classic story Rumpelstiltskin. This is a darker, more mature version that we grew up with. Rumpel is a troll that had a wife and child that have passed. Through a series of misfortunes, he has come across the opportunity to reclaim a child as his.Elizabeth is Rumpel's target. She has been friendlier than she should have with the prince and is now with child. But being the target of Rumpel's obsession and the king's desire for an heir don't mean things are going to be easy for her.At the same time, the county of Niapson has people in the Rodavlas harbor. The Rodavlas king thinks they are looking for fish. The truth is they are looking for a spinning wheel that turns straw to gold. Niapson's people are slowly starving to death and have been for about a hundred years. They know that the spinning wheel is in Rodavlas and they are prepared to go to war for it.Once I figured out who was who and what was going on, I did like the story. It is a great retelling of the classic story. I really liked the background to Rumpel's obsession with Elizabeth's unborn child.But, the story was very choppy. It took me about four or five chapters to figure out who was who. It also bounced around a lot. One moment we are talking about a woman that has a child by Rumpel, then we go to Elizabeth sneaking around with the prince, to Rumpel's history, and I have still to figure out what is going on with spirits and their abilities being taken away from them.I really feel with more editing to make everything flow better this book would be much better than it turned out to be.I received this book for free from Book Rooster in exchange for an honest review.