hlburke's review
4.0
This was pleasantly surprising. I kind of expected a very basic fairy tale send up fantasy and while it does have some elements of that (a little bit of tongue in cheek, self-aware humor, some definite "Fairy Tale cliches with a twist"), the characters and magic are complex. Everything seems to follow set rules which I appreciate (no magical "poof and it just happens").
My one complaint, there was a lot going on in the last quarter or so. Sometimes it got a little hard to follow because what was happening was fast paced and a lot flying at me at once and while my instinct in conclusions is to read big gulps to figure out what's going to happen ... this took more, "Okay, I have to carefully imagine how this all fits together" then I personally prefer in climactic scenes.
My one complaint, there was a lot going on in the last quarter or so. Sometimes it got a little hard to follow because what was happening was fast paced and a lot flying at me at once and while my instinct in conclusions is to read big gulps to figure out what's going to happen ... this took more, "Okay, I have to carefully imagine how this all fits together" then I personally prefer in climactic scenes.
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