My full review is here on my personal website. I'll post a few excerpts here, though:

1.5 out of 5.0 stars

The very worst thing about this book is Nora’s constant whining. She bounces back and forth between guys again, and does the lame “investigator” thing again. Seriously? Come on, Nora, you’re a spoiled little brat, not a detective!

The very best thing about this book is the cover? Maybe… Or maybe the font used for the title. Eh, let’s just say “the bad guy” and get it over with. I will say that I wasn’t really expecting it.

My full review is here on my personal website. I'll post a few excerpts here, though:

1.5 out of 5.0 stars

The very worst thing about this book is Nora. She’s the main character, and she’s an idiot. What is it with so many of the young adult books featuring idiots these days?! She randomly meets a guy she thinks kills someone from his old school and instead of just staying away from him, she decides to play detective – a really bad detective at that. :-/

The very best thing about this book is Patch’s ability to stalk Nora without her ever calling the police, telling her mom, or letting anyone in authority know that she thinks he’s stalking her. Again, idiot. Also, it should say a lot that this is the best thing I can think of about the book…

This one was marked as coming before the first book, but it seemed like maybe it was supposed to be either during or after the first book based on the little bit of story surrounding the tale-inside-the-story. Most of this book was a fairytale about sisters; one is good and ugly, the other bag and beautiful. There's not much else to it than that. Oh, and the mother always thought the ugly one was beautiful, as all parents apparently should.

Again, shallow, but enough to provide a hook which is the purpose of these drabbles - or whatever they're being called! There are several bookish and fairy tale elements that seem to be common-place in this series. For example, "The mirror didn't require a rhyme to work. Rhyming was so last chapter." Also, Raven Queen is the Evil Queen's daughter and, apparently, the Good King is her father? Whatever works!

A bit shallow, but it was barely a chapter of a prologue with just enough information to hook me into wanting to read the rest of the freebie stories and the real books. I especially liked the description of Apple White's father (you know, Snow White's husband/prince) as "his claim to fame had been falling in love with a comatose girl inside a glass coffin." Deliciously morbid and biting.

I definitely enjoyed the new elements of the story, but was annoyed by the increasing references to religion and god. I don't mind religious aspects to books, but it felt like the author was pushing a agenda and trying to convert people. Overall, still a trilogy I would recommend even if I'm unlikely to read more from this writer.