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A review by astrangegirlsmind
Victorian Fairy Tales by Michael Newton
1.0
This looks and sounds like something I’d love and cherish forever, right? Wrong! I had really high hopes for this book and I was let down.
There’s the possibility that I’m spoiled when it comes to fairy tales. Growing up, I was read the fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and I revisited those a couple of times and they are still my absolute favourite fairy tales. Those Victorian Fairy Tales however felt like they were written by people who had never read any fairy tales and they were just ridiculous and absurdly long. And not in the fun way, some of these are 50 to 100 pages long and it’s just not a fun reading experience (I kid you not, I fell asleep in the middle of the day at one point). There are two in here that I enjoyed (“The Wanderings of Arasmon” by Mary de Morgan and “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde) but they took a really weird religious turn towards the end. I’m glad I’ve read them but by the time I had reached the last story I was also really glad that it was finally over.
There’s the possibility that I’m spoiled when it comes to fairy tales. Growing up, I was read the fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and I revisited those a couple of times and they are still my absolute favourite fairy tales. Those Victorian Fairy Tales however felt like they were written by people who had never read any fairy tales and they were just ridiculous and absurdly long. And not in the fun way, some of these are 50 to 100 pages long and it’s just not a fun reading experience (I kid you not, I fell asleep in the middle of the day at one point). There are two in here that I enjoyed (“The Wanderings of Arasmon” by Mary de Morgan and “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde) but they took a really weird religious turn towards the end. I’m glad I’ve read them but by the time I had reached the last story I was also really glad that it was finally over.