8: The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown 8th Dwarf by Michael Mullin
My rating: 4/5 cats
i get a lot of review requests. a lot. and i have to turn most of them down because i am someone with very little in the way of free time and too many books to read already. and i wish these authors the best of luck, i do, but i have a pretty good sense of what kind of books i will respond to, and i hate saying negative things about authors who are on small presses or self-published, because i appreciate spirit and spunk and all that, but every once in a while, i let one in (LGM) ESPECIALLY if i am told it is a 24-page poem and should take me nine minutes to read, when i am already planning on borrowing a NOOK from work.
well—all of you people concerned you will not meet your self-imposed 2012 book challenges (and you do realize that you gotta get those books read before the mayans blow out all the candles on our cake)—this is a “book” for you.
i know. it is a poem. ugh. and a rhyming poem at that. and it looks like it could be a little cheesy. and that is why i almost gave it a pass. but i had this free NOOK, see, and lo! i enjoyed it despite my misgivings. it is singsong-y, but it is not childish. it’s cute but not cutesy. and i personally like retellings of fairy tales and such, and this one serves that purpose. it tells the story of the 8th dwarf in the snow white tale, who is locked in the basement for antisocial tendencies. and yet, he plays a huge role in the fate of snow white, one which lifts the curtain on the fairy tale, and shows you what was going on behind the familiar scenes. i liked it, and it really highlights the creepy date-rape elements of snow white that the disney franchise would call “romance.”
and i managed to read it on the NOOK-thing walking from my house to the subway. can’t beat that.
however—know that this is not mike mullin, YA survival king of my heart. this is another guy, with a similar name. in case you read this looking for horrible things to happen to teenagers. wrong guy.
give the man nine minutes of your time. (LGM.)
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