Review: Fascinating world but annoying characters and lingo
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 9, 2014
I enjoyed these but I felt like they were held back by the annoying slang and the way almost all of the characters talk exactly the same.The best parts were the parts told by the Evil Queen (from Snow White) and Little Red Riding Hood.I found Peter Pan, the Devil, Loki and several other characters to be almost identical. Maybe that was intentional? But in the case of Peter Pan, the Devil and the others...it seemed so out of place when they use words like "dude" and reference other slang in a time when this did not exist. I understand there is time travel involved but it still really took me out of the story and left me shaking my head.The Evil Queen's tale was by far the most intriguing to me and I enjoyed the parts where her story intertwined with the others. In fact there was not really a bad story in the collection...it's just some scenes felt awkward, artificial or just annoying. I suppose it's being written for a young audience but I couldn't take the character's seriously even while I was intrigued by their stories. It probably also doesn't help that I don't care much for the first person point of view in most cases.I would like to know more about these characters and this world that the author has created around them, but unfortunately I don't think I can make it past the way the characters themselves talk and behave so I will most likely skip the rest of the books.