I wanted to add though as just a throwaway comment but while I appreciate what he's trying to do in retelling fairytales I think he does it clumsily? At least that's how I felt with Confessions. I get that he wanted to focus on the step-sisters and make them more human but what he did was just switch their roles. The step-sisters were poor hard working girls and Cinderella was just a spoiled brat. I would have been more interesting to have all three balanced out with thier own faults and perhaps reasons, good or bad, for their choices but instead we get extremes again. Blah.
Anyway you've made it a lot farther in Mirror, Mirror then I have so good luck!
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Date: 2009-05-05 04:30 pm (UTC)I wanted to add though as just a throwaway comment but while I appreciate what he's trying to do in retelling fairytales I think he does it clumsily? At least that's how I felt with Confessions. I get that he wanted to focus on the step-sisters and make them more human but what he did was just switch their roles. The step-sisters were poor hard working girls and Cinderella was just a spoiled brat. I would have been more interesting to have all three balanced out with thier own faults and perhaps reasons, good or bad, for their choices but instead we get extremes again. Blah.
Anyway you've made it a lot farther in Mirror, Mirror then I have so good luck!