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I think I've pinpointed why Dokey and this series in general do not work for me.
It's not just the low quality of the writing and plotting, which is disappointingly lowest-common-denominator-tween-cliche. It's not primarily the tendency to eviscerate the source material, although that does bother me, especially with stories like this that have an actual author rather than being folktales with a range of variant versions. No, what I really can't handle is that these authors are trying. Trying to ...more
It's not just the low quality of the writing and plotting, which is disappointingly lowest-common-denominator-tween-cliche. It's not primarily the tendency to eviscerate the source material, although that does bother me, especially with stories like this that have an actual author rather than being folktales with a range of variant versions. No, what I really can't handle is that these authors are trying. Trying to ...more
I have a fight to pick about these new covers. Why is that the publishers feel obligated to put real models on the covers? Do they really think it appeals more to people? Well I guess the answer is yes and nothing in particular against this cover, but I don't imagine the Winter Child like the girl on the cover. Okay enough about that.
As always with this series I get hooked very easily and the pacing in the beginning is always point on. This one had the difference that Grace, main character, chas ...more
As always with this series I get hooked very easily and the pacing in the beginning is always point on. This one had the difference that Grace, main character, chas ...more
The "Once Upon a Time" series is a guilty pleasure for me, and I adore Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. So when this retelling of "The Snow Queen" came out, I skipped the backlog of the rest of the books in the series I haven't yet read and dove head first into this one.
Aside from a few surface details, like the main characters living next door to each other, there isn't much in common with Andersen's original. And usually I'm all right with that, it's only a retelling after all. I'm all f ...more
Aside from a few surface details, like the main characters living next door to each other, there isn't much in common with Andersen's original. And usually I'm all right with that, it's only a retelling after all. I'm all f ...more
Yeah...I was disappointed with this book. I wasn't really excited to read it in the first place since The Snow Queen was one of the fairy tales that never caught my interest. At first it seemed promising, and by the end, I was all "What just happened?" Sorry Cameron Dokey, but you have done better.
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