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First, let me say that I have read McKiernan's other work, his Mithgar series, and liked it. I hated this book. I love fairy tales, and I love fairy tale retellings, but this novel doesn't really add anything to the tale or re-invent the tale like other authors, such as McKinley, Lee or De Lint, do. The main character is boring and dull, and the fairy tale cliches are over done. Not only are the older siblings bad, they are really bad, even worse than the original tale ("East of the Sun, West of
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Wooooow. This book had some great moments, and I have to admit I want to read the rest of the series, but omgggg it was unnecessarily long. Oh gosh. And I usually love East of the Sun and West of the Moon retellings. But the filler in the middle was intense.
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