Review: Intriguing blends of folktales
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2012
Provided the Young Adult reader is not inspired to track down more information on the historical figure of the Marquis de Sade (whose name has given us the word "sadism," by the way), this book is a clever blend of several folktales, reasonably accurate portrayals of medieval life in terms of the hunger, dirt, and uncertainty of peasant life.  The supernatural elements go far afield from the folktales and the borderline between violent psychosis and the paranormal is blurry.