Review: Hilda is back...back in her own world (where wicked is apparently NOT the same as mean or evil)
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 25, 2011
After her nice diversion in our world (in the first story) Hilda has returned to her own. We saw her checking out Snow White at the start of the first book and now this is the rest of THAT story.We get to meet a lot more of the citizens of her world (and compare them to how they have appeared in other fairy tales in our world) with little regard for how the characters mix and match (no problems having Glinda the Good, Rumpelstiltskin and Baba Yaga in the same story after all). Oddly enough, she is now in the position to help Snow White (rather than carry out what appeared to be more nefarious plans from the first book in the series).Let's face it, it's not easy having a wicked witch as a protagonist to root for, yet somehow this author pulls it off. I'd like to give this book 4.5 stars as the editing seems to have gone downhill. Now, I realize some of the idiosyncrasies of spelling and word order are probably due to the fact the author is from the Netherlands, however there are a few things that are distracting. The book is still a very witty one, though a pinch less so than the first Hilda the Wicked Witch. It is also a bit longer in having just over 2330 Kindle locations (and a bit over 45,000 words). There are a few more naughty undercurrents as well, nothing obvious or graphic.I can see from the reviews of the last book and now this one that the readership is divided. Certainly, even for free, for this work it would probably behoove the potential-reader to download a sample. Same as for the first. I happen to find them readable, witty and well done. Others apparently do not--with a prime complaint due to the editing.  Check the sample and see for yourself.Recommended!JTG