Rapunzel – Cannonball Read 17

And she lived stinky ever after

Ra Pu Zel and the Stinky Tofu by Yin Chang Compestine

May 3, 2023 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

I enjoy a good folk tale, and non-western ones can be a favorite. However, when it is a retelling of a western one just to be politically correct, then I can be 50-50 with it. Now if it is based in the culture (such as there are Cinderella stories from around the world, not just redoing the western version), then that I usually will enjoy. But if it is done just to have diverse characters and/or setting, but everything else is the same, those are […]

That will teach Mother to lock her up in a tower…. ah tree-tower

Rapunzel’s Revenge Book 1 by Shannon and Dean Hale

February 25, 2021 by BlackRaven Leave a Comment

It is rare that I reread a book especially if I remember reading it at least once before. And if I do, it tends not to be right away. However, Rapunzel’s Revenge Book 1 by Shannon Hale and Dean Hale (along with illustrations by Nathan Hale, no relation) was a book that I thought deserved a second read. This is for several reasons. The first was that it was not flowing a hundred percent smoothly text-wise. I thought perhaps I had skipped a panel or […]

Probably not the best review to read if you’re on the fence about these books….

December 3, 2016 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

Cinder – 3.5 stars (13 reviews, 4.23 avg) I’m going to start off by saying that I’m probably not the demographic for this novel. This book has an excellent rating on Goodreads, and has gotten great reviews here on CBR. My wife loved the book, and enthusiastically encouraged me to read it. I thought it was okay. But I’m not really a fan of fairy tales, and have struggled in the past both with the romance genre and young adult fiction. So, while I wasn’t […]

Glenn Beck’s fever dream.

October 11, 2016 by Blingle Bells 1 Comment

Guys. I can’t with this book. It may have actually given me an existential crisis. I don’t even know how to unpack this, or if I should. I’m a practicing Catholic Democrat, so I guess I was bound to have some feelings about this book, since it’s from a “Catholic perspective.” I… just… wow. This lovely book is a “modern retelling” of Rapunzel. An upstanding yet mischievous young Catholic lad scales a tower and finds a young girl. I’m going to spoil a couple things […]

Short but sweet take on Rapunzel.

September 23, 2014 by narfna Leave a Comment

Rapunzel is my favorite fairy-tale, so you can imagine my skepticism learning the Rapunzel in this version has no hair. Absolutely none at all. But I was charmed by the author’s way with words, and by the end, she had me with her version of this story (even if I loved it for very different reasons than I love the original tale). I read the whole thing in about an hour and a half. It’s not very long, but it packs a nice little punch. […]

Cress’ tower is a satellite. She has no way to let down her hair.

February 15, 2014 by Malin 2 Comments

4.5 stars This is the third book in a series, and I would strongly recommend you don’t start with this one. This review will contain minor spoilers for Cinder, the first book in the series and Scarlet, the second book, so if you’ve not read them, go read them first. This review will be here when you’re done. Crescent Moon, or Cress, as she’d prefer to be called, has spent the last seven years all alone on a satellite orbiting Earth, monitoring communications for the Lunar government and […]

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