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Fantastic Fairytales - Beauty by Nancy Ohlin (writing as Nancy Butcher) Published: May 2013, Originally published 2005
Pages: 175
Copy: Library

As much of a fan as I am of fairy tale retellings, for some reason this one didn't catch my interest too much.   Beauty is very, very loosely based on Snow White, - wicked queen obsessed with beauty and jealous of her daughter, but this one while not modern in setting, had a modern feel to it.

Beauty in this instance is a drug, in pill form, that the girls become addicted to.  There is a 'little man' who is helping the queen to keep her beauty but nothing really clicked about him.  I'd love to be able to pin down what I wasn't keen on in this book, but I think it was just in general.  I didn't connect to Ana, and because of that couldn't connect to the others.

Still, if you are a fan of retellings, give it a try (it's a really quick read) and let me know what you think.  It wasn't bad, just not for me.
Posted by curlypow at Tuesday, October 15, 2013 Labels: fantastic fairytales, Nancy Ohlin


