Mirror, Mirror

boysmumas

Enjoyed all the stories in this collection except the last one. It was so predictable and over the top I knew what his last name would be long before the ending. Of course I only purchase these collections for the J.D. Robb stories. But usually find the others interesting.

This book was good, I enjoyed the plot and did find it suspenseful. But then I’ve always found the books by this author good. I like both Eve and her husband Roak. The other characters are familiar, at least those in the police department.

The only story worth reading is JD Robb's! And that's mostly because I've read her entire series, otherwise the story itself is nothing special. All the stories in this collection are so immature and unrealistic that it's not worth reading. I get they were attempting to utilize and modernize (?) fairy tales, but at the expense of real writing? There's no real plots, no character development, and the ending/resolution comes so quickly in all the stories (except Robb's) that they're unrealistic. Here's the thing, we all knew how the story would end because they're playing with fairy tales and writing in the romance genre, so the $7.99 should entitle the reader to a genuine story with interesting characters and events. Not the case here; the last story was particularly bad. It was like the authors had a contract and threw something together to make the page limit. I've literally read better modernized fairy tales from my junior high students.