Curses!
A F***ed-Up Fairytale
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5.0 • 5 Ratings
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
I'm no hero. In fact, up until a couple of days ago, I was the villain. Kidnapped maidens, scared kids, stole magic tchotchkes--until I got into a little scrape with the union. Now I'm cursed with the worst fate in New Never City--no matter what I do, I gotta be nice.
So when a head-case princess named Asia barges into my apartment and asks me to find out who whacked her stepsister, Cinderella, I have no choice but to help her. And I'm more than willing to head back to her parents' castle and do some investigating if it means I can get into her black leather cat suit. Except this twisted sister has a family nutty enough to send the Biggest Baddest Wolf running for the hills--and a freaky little curse of her own. . .
"More than f***ed-up. Demented. Hilarious." --Mario Acevedo, author of Werewolf Smackdown
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Rumpelstiltskin or RJ, as he prefers to be called has been kicked out of the Villain's Guild and cursed to do good deeds. Bored without his villainous routine, he agrees to help Anastasia Maledotto find out who murdered her stepsister, Cinderella, and rescue her sister, Drusilla, from a disastrous marriage to Prince Charming. Kazimer is squarely on the side of Cinderella's stepsisters, so he downplays their traditional ugliness: Asia is slightly overweight, and Dru sports a unibrow. The vibe is like a cross between The Addams Family and Grimm with a little Rocky and Bullwinkle thrown in, as various people cartoonishly try to kill their spouses, and RJ is drawn to Asia's violent nature. Juvenile glee drips from the twee and faux shocking allusions to sex toys, foot fetishes, and transsexuality, and the gratuitous pop culture references are already somewhat dated, leaving this clumsy romp notably lacking in redeeming features.
