Review: Dark and Thrilling
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 25, 2012
Whew! This is definitely a darker Prequel than the others, but still so incredibly good. The author always manages to take a rhyme or short story, completely re-imagine it and create an entirely new story, tie it back to the original source, and have it all make sense together. The explanation of the "Mary Mary" nursery rhyme was extremely clever and made me look at it and say "so that's what it means!" I enjoyed seeing the other characters from the other prequels mentioned in this one and how the Evil Queen keeps popping up everywhere.  I am not familiar with the history of Elizabeth Bathory's rule or Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen" (although I'm going to try to find it now), so I was grateful for the author's notes at the end explaining where some of the characters have come from. Another complex and thrilling Prequel and I'm excited to keep reading and figuring out how all the characters are connected.