A review by krisrid
Death's Apprentice by K.W. Jeter, Gareth Jefferson Jones
1.0
I only made it to chapter 5 of this book before I gave up. This book was completely different from what I was expecting from the description and from most of the reviews I read.
I saw reviews about how this was a view on Grimm fairy tales, and a clever approach to "Death" via his apprentice.
For me this book came across as a depressing, violent dark and angry world. Maybe I should have expected that - although I have read the original Grimm tales, and realize they are darker than Disney would have us believe, this book was so unrelentingly dark and hard, I just could not bring myself to stick with it any longer. Possibly, the book gets more engaging further on, but it was too heavy for me in the portion I read.
I saw reviews about how this was a view on Grimm fairy tales, and a clever approach to "Death" via his apprentice.
For me this book came across as a depressing, violent dark and angry world. Maybe I should have expected that - although I have read the original Grimm tales, and realize they are darker than Disney would have us believe, this book was so unrelentingly dark and hard, I just could not bring myself to stick with it any longer. Possibly, the book gets more engaging further on, but it was too heavy for me in the portion I read.