This book was quite entertaining, and most of the stories were strong. These short stories were a great twist to the old myths - ranging from funny, to mildy chilling, to downright silly. Definitely a great light read! ( )

Out of 20 short stories, only three didn't induce nausea or boredom. Rosemary Edghill's "Bitter Fruit: A Tale of Crownland" was a grown up and viscerally disturbing story about a woman who seeks justice. Scott William Carpenter's "Heart of Stone," in which a calculating Medusa experiments with what permutation of love will set her free of her killing curse. And Michael Hiebert's "Dust" is a slightly trippy look at a tooth-fairy accidentally bound to the will of a vapid human child. The rest are banal, trite and dull re-tellings of all the usual tales. Cinderella's "evil" stepmother tells her tale. A Valkerie falls in love with a mortal soldier and begs Odin to let her live a "real life," which apparently means a wedding and babies. Morgan le Fey's oh so selfless desire to save Britain. On and on and on, one uninspired plodding story after another. These are the worst kind of pseudo-feminist revisionist fantasy. ( )

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This book wasn’t too thrilling. It had lots of short stories, which can be fun to read, but once again it seems as if these people have no editors. One story even had the main characters name spelled wrong for several pages, right in the middle of the story, after which the author went back to the original spelling. Another story had a then where it should have had a than (this, to me, is an incredibly annoying error).

This book had one redeeming story, Dust, about the tooth fairy, how she was hooked on fairy dust, and how she sledgehammered teeth out of a young girl after she learned the fairy’s true name and kept calling on her. Funny stuff. ( )