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A review by maryehavens
Faraway: Fairy Tales for the Here and Now by Gayle Forman, Nic Stone, Soman Chainani, Rainbow Rowell, Ken Liu
4.0
I love fairy tales and I really enjoy fairy tale adaptations to an extent. I think they are best served as short stories.
Rating from favorite to least favorite:
"Hazel and Gray" by Nic Stone (a twist on Hansel and Gretel with a brothel element)
"The Wickeds" by Gayle Forman (evil stepmothers side of the story)
"The Prince and the Troll" by Rainbow Rowell (forbidden love story with Starbucks element)
"The Princess Game" by Soman Chainani (serial killer at a prep school kills off girls in princess ways)
"The Cleaners" by Ken Liu (memories are retained on objects)
The Liu story was the most unique but what fairy tale was it based on? I couldn't figure that out the entire time. I thought it was interesting but a bit too sci-fi for me. My husband has read a few Liu books and enjoyed them so I was interested in this one but it was just not clicking.
LOVED the Stone short story!! What a great twist. It was also the one that was the most complete - a few others kind of left you hanging. Forman's story was great too in that it was a major feminist tale where the silenced men get a story and it ain't good.
Love the concepts, excited to find more fairy tale twists.
Rating from favorite to least favorite:
"Hazel and Gray" by Nic Stone (a twist on Hansel and Gretel with a brothel element)
"The Wickeds" by Gayle Forman (evil stepmothers side of the story)
"The Prince and the Troll" by Rainbow Rowell (forbidden love story with Starbucks element)
"The Princess Game" by Soman Chainani (serial killer at a prep school kills off girls in princess ways)
"The Cleaners" by Ken Liu (memories are retained on objects)
The Liu story was the most unique but what fairy tale was it based on? I couldn't figure that out the entire time. I thought it was interesting but a bit too sci-fi for me. My husband has read a few Liu books and enjoyed them so I was interested in this one but it was just not clicking.
LOVED the Stone short story!! What a great twist. It was also the one that was the most complete - a few others kind of left you hanging. Forman's story was great too in that it was a major feminist tale where the silenced men get a story and it ain't good.
Love the concepts, excited to find more fairy tale twists.