Two and Twenty Dark Tales:
Dark Retellings of Mother Goose
Rhymes
An Anthology
Usually I like to write a synopsis
for every story within an anthology, but in this case the novel is compiled of
twenty short stories so my lazy bone kicked in and I figured I would just
review the entirety. On the bright side however not reviewing each separate
story means no spoiler alerts because you will still have to read the book to
find out exactly what I mean.
Some of these stories are a hit while
others are a miss, but when you have twenty stories and twenty authors, let’s
face it that is to be expected. I want to start with my favorite story which
was the re-telling of Wee Willie Winkie by Leigh Fallon, it is one of the
shorter stories but by far the creepiest in the bunch. Most of the stories have
a great aspect to them and they are certainly entertaining, some however where
completely off the mark when it came to the Nursery Rhyme they were supposed to
be re-telling not just incorporating them into their own story. The biggest
problem I had with this novel was that I personally didn’t find it age
appropriate, it is supposed to be a young adult novel but some of the stories
are far too graphic. Now how I determine this is based on my family, I am very
close to my sixteen year old sister, my thirteen year old niece, and my ten
year old niece, so when reading a young adult novel I always think to myself
one or all of them will love this novel or “There is no way in Hell I would let
them read this!” In this case it was the latter, for instance I don’t find
references to sexual abuse and rape to be appropriate for a young adult novel.
I am twenty-something and I myself have a hard time swallowing anything that
even alludes to such horrible acts. There are thankfully only two who add this
into their stories so if you can skip those this would be a fantastic novel,
otherwise reader discretion is advised.
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