Quest of the Hart

DNF - PG 68

Why?

I was actually going to try to read the whole thing, for no other reason than to write a review - but, honestly, I don't like the book. I don't like anything about the book. I don't like the overly simplistic way it's written. I hate Kaylee and her tears every chapter and ‘cowering' and overblown fear. I had hoped for a quietly competent princess, instead I got this quivering wet blanket. Ugh.

I don't like how the story rotates chapters between our golden heroine and our ‘evil' character - mostly because the ‘evil' character is halfway interesting and it's ALWAYS painful to return to Kaylee. (But the ‘evil' characters chapters are still overwrought and juvenile.) I can also predict the ending and it's not at all what I'd want to see.

Also, and I can't believe I'm saying this, it's too fairytale like. I read retellings because I like the original tale and want to see a new take on it, and to see it fleshed out. But this book, it doesn't flesh things out. You have the ‘good' and ‘evil' pretty much defined and the ‘romance' is way too similar to the original Sleeping Beauty (okay, not the ORIGINAL, but the popular, Disney-fied version) as it just is there and ... that's about it.

Blerg. Nope, not reading any more.