Review: Forget what you know, Enjoy what you get
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 5, 2012
Growing up in the Disney Generation, that group of 20 to 30 year olds who were soothed by parents poping the household collection of Disney VHS into the VCR on a daily basis, I find myself always expecting something more. Even the true tales (Not Disney versions but the original writing) of classics like Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Etc don't seem to hold up to what I use to consider the standard set by Disney.I read Morris' Aladdin and His Wonderfully Infernal Device a second time just to take it in again and hopefully as it's own story to best give this work a review of itself not as a comparison to another. This tale is amazing steampunk and a great story by itself. Giles is a character that I would wish to see again in a truly original setting. I wish Morris had chosen to give this tale more time and push it out of the novella range. In short, this is a tale I was happy to buy and I would definately purchase the next steampunk fairy tale Morris chooses to write.My reasoning for a 4 star rating is the high number of grammatical and formatting errors.