Review: Good idea, poor execution.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 08 30, 2011
This is not the worst of the free books, but it does feel rather like the author was phoning it in. There was little space given to the characterisation or personality of the lead, and I felt the stories were lacking for it. The grim-dark-violent nature of the stories felt gratuitous and sexist, with Snow White being a porn star and the dwarves her costars, and Bluebeard unidentified aside from being a girl-killing sociopath until the end of the story when our assassin takes him down. I wish the author had taken more time to think through the ramifications of her world-building and worked with an editor to tighten her plots and writing.