{"id":71,"date":"2005-05-11T18:26:41","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T01:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=71"},"modified":"2021-06-04T13:09:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T17:09:12","slug":"rotten-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/71","title":{"rendered":"Rotten Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rotten Relations<\/em> edited by Denise Little<\/p>\n

\"rottenrelations.jpg\"<\/a>\"\"I was really disappointed in this collection. I had, as the song goes, high hopes, but was, in the end, let down.<\/p>\n

I picked up the book because the idea of it sounded great: villains from fairy tales and literature telling their side of the story (much like Gregory Maguire’s Wicked<\/em> I believe.)<\/p>\n

As with another Denise Little anthology I recently read, we got stories based on the same tales, several times, when there are so many other stories out there besides Cinderella, and I can only take so much of Cinderella.<\/p>\n

There are some good stories in this collection, such as Josepha Sherman’s The Trick of the Trickster’s Tricked<\/i>, where we get to see the wife of Iktome, Spider, and what she’s learned, living with a trickster for so long. Josepha Sherman got to Trickster tale tone perfectly. I also liked Von Jocks Thrice Told<\/i>, which reminded me of a story I heard on Selected Shorts. However many of the stories came across as half-hearted attempts of the evil-doer to justify their actions.<\/p>\n

No offense, but there’s enough of that in the news and media, I don’t need it in my fantasy.
\nRating: 3\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I picked up the book because the idea of it sounded great: villains from fairy tales and literature telling their side of the story (much like Gregory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,291],"tags":[431],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantasy","category-paper","tag-josepha-sherman"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-19","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/70","url_meta":{"origin":71,"position":0},"title":"Twice Upon A Time","author":"Michelle","date":"May 2, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Twice Upon A Time (1999) edited by Denise Little Fairy tales seen from another perspective--the wife of the giant from the story of Jack and the Beanstalk. 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