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Troll's-Eye View: A Book of Villainous Tales

Ellen Datlow (Editor),

Terri Windling (Editor)

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Nov 16, 2009 Luann rated it liked it

Shelves: short-story, 2009, young-adult, fairy-tales, fantasy

This is a nice collection of retold fairy tales focusing on fairy tale villains. It features stories and a few poems written by many excellent fantasy authors such as Delia Sherman, Garth Nix, Peter S. Beagle, Holly Black, Jane Yolen, Nancy Farmer, Neil Gaiman, and a few others. As I expect with short story collections, there were some stories I enjoyed much more than others.

Probably my favorite story was "Up the Down Beanstalk: A Wife Remembers" by Peter S. Beagle. It is a retelling of the Jac ...more

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Nov 17, 2009 Slayermel rated it liked it

Shelves: own, fiction, 21st-century, young-adult, fantasy, poetry, paranormal, anthology, fairy-tales, neil-gaiman

Troll’s Eye View was an interesting collection of Fairy tales told from the villain’s perspective. It is an anthology, full of stories and poems from various authors. Some of the stories where better than others, but all were enjoyable and had their place in this book. It was actually a bit of an odd feeling finally seeing the other side of the stories you grew up reading. I felt quite sorry for some of the villains, specifically the witch from Hansel and Gretel. Once you know her back story, yo ...more

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