Title: WORDY AND UN-ORIGINAL
Product review: In truth, I did read the reviews for this book, but decided to take a chance and buy it anyway. By the time I got to page 40, I felt like I was back in a school--it became 'required' reading instead of pleasure reading. I considered it 'required' because I had paid my money for this book so I was 'required' to read the whole thing.Soft porn aside, the whole fairy journey was long, boring and unoriginal. The characters were stereotypical: the bad witch Nell vs. the good fairie Jennett. The good 'son' versus the 'bad' one, yada yada yada...Mr. Herbert has some really nice passages but they got bogged down with too many other passages. And the thing where he put explanations in parenthesis looked like footnotes to himself he didn't bother to work into the story. Disappointing.
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