samiism's reviews
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I wouldn't say I "liked it" but "it was okay". I have probably spent way too much time on Reddit's Let's Not Meet because this short story wasn't as creepy as I hoped it would be. Great command of words, though.

I like retellings of fairy tales. This one is decently written. This story is a letter from the Queen of Sorrow (otherwise known as the Evil Queen or Snow White Queen) to Wilhelm Carl Grimm, telling him about how she is wrongfully depicted as an evil queen and that Snow White is a vampire.

The letter is actually half-letter, half-narration. The format seemed jarring to me. You don't write a letter to someone that goes: "I pursed my heart-shaped lips..."

Otherwise, I am still interested in reading the rest of this tale.

A retelling of Cinderella, or at least her history. This story sounded much like Inception because of the whole Dreamland theme going on. Alice, a descendant of the Brothers Grumm, is summoned to Italy to check out the found burnt remains of a woman suspected of being a witch and find the real Cinderella. A guy, Loki Blackstar, is a Dreamhunter who helps her go into the corpse's dream and complete the mission.

The humor in this book was okay. I found myself rolling my eyes at Loki's jokes, though. The story was interesting and well-researched (glassblowers, Murano, etc.) that it goes well with how Cinderella could have come to be.

My mantra after every paragraph seemed to be "wAT??@!"

Peter Pan's love is Sleeping Beauty. Count Dracula is in it and Peter calls him Draco. And so is the Hunchback of Notre Dame, Peter's "Badass Hunchman" whom he calls Hunchy. And Immortals.

wAT??@!

Lots of pop culture references in this book. Like Christopher Lee, Draco Malfoy, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, to name a few.

Peter Pan drives a Corvette to his castle.

In a nutshell: This book is a fictionalized and glamorized version of Elle and Blair Fowler's lives. It's just so vapid. Hardly any substance in this novel.

I enjoyed this book immensely. This is the kind of storytelling that I don't mind spending a day reading because there's something funny lurking in every paragraph. Her stories about the gay Peekapoo, her portrayal of her Bitch Tits dad, and her misery when the nutritionist told her she would need to lay off the vodka had me in stitches.

This wasn't as funny as [b:Are You There Vodka It's Me Chelsea|40173|Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea|Chelsea Handler|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1215803088s/40173.jpg|2270522], but still funny enough to elicit a few chuckles from me. My boyfriend read a page from that chapter with Jerome and he laughed out loud, too, so I take that as a good sign.

I was reading this on Google Play Books and had a separate browser with a picture of Chelsea herself on it. Somehow, my mind insisted on visualizing Elizabeth Banks instead. I also pictured Regina Hall as Chelsea's friend Shoniqua (one of my favorite characters in her books).

My boyfriend got me this book because it was 30% off at his store and he knew I love cats. He also got me the Grumpy Cat plush toy during a trip to Old Sacramento.

Grumpy Cat is not my favorite meme. It's okay. This book was okay. I wish he hadn't spent money it, though. Could've used the cash to buy use an extra plate of chicken tikka masala that night.