Vapid. Plotholes. Characters so pointless that I didn't really care what happened to them. I picked this up thinking it would dark and bloody with hints of eroticism. What followed was rather more lacklustre. 3 girls are at boarding school together and become Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow Shite. Each of the girls is utterly gorgeous (but in their own way) and live out the stories. I read them all because amidst the bad there were some kernals or originality. Like how Sleeping Beauty came to More...

This truly is one of my favourite books. I can't remember when I bought Happy Ever After or why (probably just liked the cover as I had never heard of it), but I am so glad I did pick it out from the corners of my local town's tiny, yet quaint, bookshop. It is set in the fifties and tells three separate, yet connected, stories revolving around three best friends finishing their A levels at a remote girls' boarding school. This might sound very malory towers I assure it is not. This book has a si More...

This is definitely one of the most intriguing books I've ever read, both stylistically and content-wise. It's a trilogy of books that are all written in their own individual style. Additionally all the books focus on a set of three best friends and their final years at a 1960s boarding school - but they are also retellings of some of the best-loved fairytales ever written. Interesting. I shall now review each one separately, so that you get the full idea.

THE TOWER ROOM
This one follows Megan, who More...

Happy Ever After by Adele Geras

“Once upon a time Megan, Alice and Bella shared the Tower Room. Theirs was an enchanted world, and the deep friendship that grew through the final year of school helped them to survive betrayal, treachery, jealousy and a terrible act of violence.”

I read this book a while ago but i’m still enchanted by it even now. This book is a wonderfully elegant retelling of the stories Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, however, It’s not for the faint hearted, i warn yo More...

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Really enjoyed this book!

The characters included in this book were more than loveable and the stories interlinked beautifully. No stone was left unturned at the end and I was not left wondering about what happened to whats-his-face-who-went-to-london.

The stories were well re-told and still kept their fairytale theme, whilst maintaining a certain level of modernity, which was very refreshing.

I hope to read more in f More...

Whilst reading stories from Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber', one of my students recommended this book to me. Despite my low star rating, I don't regret having read it. Indeed, I regret my age -- or the fact that it wasn't written and published when I was much, much younger. If I'd read this book when I was 18 years old, I think I would have appreciated these updated fairy tales much more.

It is a good book that manages to do a modern retelling of three fairytales that manage to tie them all together. I enjoyed reading it as much as I did when I first read it years ago when I was younger. I found myself sucked into the stories, attached to the characters, hoping that they would get what they wanted in the end.

I thought that it was okay, not my favourite book, but still pretty good. It's about fairytales, but in a more sort of realistic way. I found it slightly hard to read, but I still maintain that its content made up for it.

I like fairytales which is why I was attracted to this... but I found it quite creepy. The stories are very dark and definitely stick with you for a long time. I think it's important to go into this book with no expectations.

It says not for younger readers but it's not for older ones either. A little too...uncomplicated and obvious for my liking.

Brilliant, rewritten fairy tales, took me months to read this and I don't know why because I very much enjoyed it.

I really enjoyed this book. I loved the merge of the fantasy fairy tale and the modern world we live in. I thought it was an interesting take on the fairy tales we grow up with and made them even more relevant for an older audience.

took a while to get into the book, the way the first part was written required too much concentration to understand it as i was reading it, the last two sections were much more enjoyable and easier to read

Propoer magic, lovely retelling of the classic fairytales

I liked the writing but the 'modern' fairytales were awful and extremely predictable.

A lovely retelling of Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty and Snow White. I was expecting a little bit more of romance in this book but still it was very enjoyable and sweet.