Reviews for Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There

The average rating for Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-10-19 00:00:00 Charles S. Gans Jr. It's funny because some of these stories were amazing 5 star reads for me, and others of them were total misses. I really enjoyed the fairy tale retellings, and the stories that focus more on greek mythology or Shakespeare were the ones where I found myself skimming quickly and just waiting for them to be over already. Also the stories told from a woman's POV really threw me, because the voice was NOT feminine at all and I was repeatedly surprised to realize the narrator of the story was a woman in those instances.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-08-31 00:00:00 Matthew Harris A mix of retellings of classic stories from folklore and mythology and original stories with mythological origins. Every story in this volume is enjoyable, although not all of them achieve the "twist" on the classic version of the story that makes the best of these stories shine. My favorites are probably the rather wistful Goldilocks retelling, the thoroughly opinionated Gingerbread Man, and an original story in which a very Dashiell Hammet-esque San Francisco private eye has an encounter with the god Hermes. Worth picking up if you're a folk tale afficionado.