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Yes, I mostly read this book because the library does not have "Liar's Moon". But also it's REALLY GOOD. It's a fairy tale, which I love, it's got a great SPIN on said fairy tale, which I love, and it's RUMPLESTILTSKIN, which is unusual and therefore something I love.
Rumplestiltskin is a weird fairy tale because it happens in a strange order (ie. the wedding is in the MIDDLE of the story), and it's hard to "Disney"-up, because a lot of people have weird motivations. One of the really cool things about the book is how MESSY Charlotte's life is. She has plenty of opportunity to either a) leave or b) hope someone else fixes her problems, and she takes NONE of those chances. She barely lets anyone help her AT ALL. And it's thisclose to being very frustrating, but Charlotte is just so well intentioned that you don't mind.
I loved the real-ness of the story, which is an accomplishment in a fairy tale, I think. The village of Shearing and the mill at Stirwaters felt like any of a hundred (okay: a dozen) English villages I've been to.
I do kind of wish I'd read this before I started watching Once Upon a Time, because it is NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE for me to see anyone other than the OuaT Rumplestiltskin right now, but that's no one's fault but my own (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rj_anderson told me to read this when she gave me "Starcrossed" all those months ago).
8/10 for being a great fairy tale, a scary curse, a great resolution and a hard as nails heroine.
Rumplestiltskin is a weird fairy tale because it happens in a strange order (ie. the wedding is in the MIDDLE of the story), and it's hard to "Disney"-up, because a lot of people have weird motivations. One of the really cool things about the book is how MESSY Charlotte's life is. She has plenty of opportunity to either a) leave or b) hope someone else fixes her problems, and she takes NONE of those chances. She barely lets anyone help her AT ALL. And it's thisclose to being very frustrating, but Charlotte is just so well intentioned that you don't mind.
I loved the real-ness of the story, which is an accomplishment in a fairy tale, I think. The village of Shearing and the mill at Stirwaters felt like any of a hundred (okay: a dozen) English villages I've been to.
I do kind of wish I'd read this before I started watching Once Upon a Time, because it is NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE for me to see anyone other than the OuaT Rumplestiltskin right now, but that's no one's fault but my own (
rj_anderson told me to read this when she gave me "Starcrossed" all those months ago).8/10 for being a great fairy tale, a scary curse, a great resolution and a hard as nails heroine.
