Title: Boring, pretentious, no likeable characters
Review: I bought this book because of the buzz and after reading reviews on Amazon. I feel lied to (by the reviews that I read). The most genuinely inventive aspect of this book is its premise, but that only carries one through the first few chapters. After this, there needs to be credible characterization and an interesting plot. Instead this book offers unlikeable, unsympathetic and uninteresting characters whose motivations and choices are not believable or consistent, and a tangled, overwrought plot that strains to make something complex out of the familiar fairy tale. My overall impression throughout was that the book was trying too hard and took itself too seriously. Ultimately, it was ponderous, undramatic and clever for the sake of being clever.
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