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Worth checking out. I would have preferred fewer, longer, more in depth stories. But in the end, none of them are long enough to tell a complete satisfactory story. Fairy tales with an erotic twist. Overall this book is average. Some of the stories were better than others--they ran the full gambit from very sexy to totally boring. But the book is very much as advertised.
Came in condition described within the estimated time frame. Overall a positive purchase experience.
I was definitely wrong. For example, take Goldy Locks and the Three Bears.
It was just suggesting the idea that women like being raped. When they found Goldy Locks in their house they surrounded her and started taking off her clothes.
Instead of bears it was three men. Every story the female didn't like what was happening, but then suddenly she was fine with it.To me this was not a female positive book at all.
I bought this book because I was hoping for a sex positive book for females. Tons of the short stories were of women being taken advantage of.
It sounded more like rape than sexy to me.
The original fairytale is a sad one, but I've always enjoyed it. "The Goose Girl" was completely ruined and very disappointing. The others. These 2 stories and "Ugly Duckling" make the book worthwhile. Even "Goldilocks" which I didn't like that much either.
I thought that taking a look at female sexuality through fairy tales was more of an exuse to write erotic stories, until I read "Cat and Mouse" and "Mirror on the wall". that said, I absolutley HATED what Madore did with "The Goose Girl". This version is awful and ruined the whole point of the story. Still, it sort of fit with the original tale. I enjoyed these stories quite a bit.
I enjoyed most of the others as well, but "Cat-Mouse" and "Mirror" were definately the most profound. fit.
I have to say I liked the sequel better, so if you weren't too satisfied with this one, you should still give the second one a try because it's much better.I'm a woman, and though I know women are still pushing for full equal rights in this country, I DON'T enjoy having to constantly hear the fact that women are not men's possessions, and have equal rights within 80% of the stories in this book. In one instance, the author wrote a story in which the men were represented as cats who felt they were in control of the mice, who were women, even though the mice were equal to the cats, but dressed in skimpy clothes to please them.
That, and I had difficulty picturing a cat trying to have sex with a mouse.But as I said, the second one was much better, and more about what was happening within the context of the story, instead of trying too successfully to convey a message of feminine empowerment. There were others that had to do with males v.
I really wish this story was more cleverly done, or omitted entirely, because it's way to feminist for me. While the classic cat and mouse theme, it was hard to get into the story that was too focused on showing a message, rather than telling a story.
I ended up reading the sequel to this one because I didn't have my Kindle yet, and they were all sold out of this one. I could understand that the author's goal was to probably empower women in their sexuality, but I think she took it a little too far, by constantly having to remind the reader of this through the characters in a not-so-clever way.
females, but I chose this one because it was so obvious.
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