Nicole’s 'fairy-tales' books on Goodreads (5 books)

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Kingdom Series Collection #1-3 (Kingdom, #1-3)

author

Hall, Marie *

isbn

1480239186

isbn13

9781480239180

asin

1480239186

num pages

307 pp

avg rating

4.06

num ratings

4,534

date pub

Nov 02, 2012

date pub edition

Nov 10, 2012

Nicole's rating

really liked it

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Her Mad Hatter

I like the premise of the Kingdom series, with one fairy godmother in charge of finding the mates for the bad boys of Wonderland. I thou Her Mad Hatter

I like the premise of the Kingdom series, with one fairy godmother in charge of finding the mates for the bad boys of Wonderland. I thought Her Mad Hatter started off slow, and parts of the beginning seemed choppy, almost like thoughts and sentences weren't complete; that made the story a bit hard to get into at first. For me, it started to pick up once Alice was introduced.

I did like that the author didn't stick to the traditional Alice in Wonderland characters and decided that Alice should be of Asian ethnicity. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that Alice is Japanese, but her surname is Hu, which is a Chinese surname. The author should have done research on the differences of Asian surnames. I would have liked the book to be longer, in order to flesh out the characters more; it's finally explained why Hatter can't leave Wonderland, but I would have liked to know exactly how he ended up there in the first place.
And what exactly caused his madness?

A good book, and as someone who has an affinity for cupcakes, I can't wait to try the recipes that are included.

Gerard's Beauty

While I liked Her Mad Hatter, this story was easier to read; probably because it was a more straight-forward story, not like Hatter's book where it felt I had ingested some type of blue mushrooms lol. That being said, this one wasn't my favorite story in the series. Betty was witty, spunky and made no apologies for being who she is (manga lover and larper that she is), but it was still predictable, even down to her working in a library (wasn't Belle a book lover?)

Gerard wasn't bad, and he seemed to have a couple of redeeming qualities (he can cook, and was accepting and patient with Betty's nephew), but for whatever reason that I can't identify this story was just meh.

Red and Her Wolf

Now this story was darker all the way around, with traitorous fairies, goblins, ghouls and soul suckers; definitely not the Little Red Riding Hood story we read as children.

Reading this version, it was easy to understand why Violet hated the wolf, but I had a hard time getting with the fact that all it took was one time seeing Violet for Ewan to decide she was his mate. I know that I had to suspend reality for the sake of the stories in the book, but even that was a stretch for me.

We learned about Violet's background, but I wish we could have learned more about Ewan's history. The battle scene at the end could have been more impressive than was written, but still it was an overall enjoyable story and I would definitely recommend this first volume in the Kingdom series. ...more

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Mar 02, 2014

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Mar 08, 2014

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Mar 02, 2014

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