book_nut's Reviews (2.91k)

Cute use of fairy tales, but not exactly my cuppa tea.

After a lot of slow narration and then (surprisingly) a bloody massacre (all within the first 50 pages), I still wasn't compelled enough to finish it. That's not to say it's horrible. I'm sure someone out there will want to read it.

It's cute. But I probably shouldn't have read it right after Clementine's Letters and Moxy Maxwell, because it's not as cute as they are.

Liked the Canadian references (mmm... Shreddies), but couldn't really get into the story.

Cute combination of graphic novel and prose... just not my cuppa tea.

Too embarrassing. And the mom drove me NUTS. Bailed on it.

A good premise -- a daughter of scientists in 1946, and her interactions with the world. Honestly, I didn't finish it, though if I read faster and had more time (and less to read), I probably would have. I may have even really enjoyed it.

It's not that it's a bad book. I'm just too old. And unhip. So, I bailed.

It's really not the fault of Mr. Stienbeck or the book that I abandoned this one. It's mostly because about 100 pages into it, I realized that I liked my myths novelized and not in narrative form. Ah, well. At least I know that about myself now.

My second attempt at reading this book. Couldn't finish it (again). I just don't like the Howards, Boleyns and Henry VIII very much.