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DNF @ 78%
While I don't normally review books that I DNF, I am going to with this one. I am giving this review based on the tales in the book that I did read.
Book/Story: (Will give average rating for each section of tales)
Book Cover: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
POV: Third Person (each individual tale) Series/Standalone: Standalone Part of a series: No Safe or Dark: Safe
Asleep In The Dark - (Average Rating) ⭐⭐.5
The Forest Of The Yew - ⭐⭐
The Apple Tree Man - ⭐⭐
The Travelling Tree - ⭐
Mossycoat - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Quickening - (Average Rating) ⭐⭐⭐
Bride And The Cailleach - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Crooker - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Fairy Widower - ⭐⭐
The Basketmaker's Donkey - ⭐
Moan And The Willow - ⭐⭐
Struggle And Hope - (Average Rating)⭐⭐
The Green Mist - ⭐⭐⭐
Goblin Combe - ⭐
Betty Stags And The Fairies - ⭐⭐⭐
No Man's Land - ⭐
Joy And Sunshine - (Average Rating) ⭐⭐⭐.25
The Fairy Shawl - ⭐⭐
Yallery Brown - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Field - ⭐⭐⭐
The Tulip Pixies - ⭐⭐⭐
The Height Of The Green - (Average Rating) (of what I read) ⭐⭐⭐
The Juniper Tree - ⭐
The Legend Of Knockgrafton - ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Jack And The Beanstalk - ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
If I had to give an average rating of the overall book (at least the part that I read), it would be two stars. While I enjoyed some of the tales, they were just way too dry for my taste. Some were too short and left me wanting more detail. They ended abruptly, and I had to go back and make sure I didn't miss some pages before starting the next story in the series.
I do think the stories were grouped nicely. But I just couldn't force myself to go on. Reading this nearly put me in a coma.
I'm glad I only spent 99 cents on this book.
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1 released bookFolk Tales is a 6-book series first released in 2001 with contributions by Lisa Schneidau, Tom Muir, and Henriette Barkow.