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A review by allyjs
Clockwork Fairy Tales: A Collection of Steampunk Fables by
2.0
There are some strong stories in this collection: the best ones being "Fair Vasyl" and "You Will Attend Until Beauty Awakens." The rest vary in quality, a couple I ended up abandoning halfway for the next story in the collection.
I think that if you're going to do a fairy tale retelling, you really need to do something new with the story. A straight retelling with a steampunk coating doesn't do much for me. Some of the stories embraced the idea of finding ways to make steampunk work with the fairy tales. Others seemed to have a few gears thrown in just to meet the requirement.
It's worth checking out for the handful of solid stories but the good parts are much stronger than the collection as a whole.
I think that if you're going to do a fairy tale retelling, you really need to do something new with the story. A straight retelling with a steampunk coating doesn't do much for me. Some of the stories embraced the idea of finding ways to make steampunk work with the fairy tales. Others seemed to have a few gears thrown in just to meet the requirement.
It's worth checking out for the handful of solid stories but the good parts are much stronger than the collection as a whole.