Tender Morsels scared me. Which might be why it took me so long to read a relatively short YA fantasy novel.
The first 50 pages were violent, ugly, depressing as anything I’ve ever read and not at all compelling. They just made me ill. Snow White and Rose Red my butt…
TW had really liked the book, even with the incest and the rapes and the forced abortions. So I kept reading… a few pages a night.
Until finally, the world shifted and everything was nice. Except when the world would shift just a little bit and the ugliness would wander in.
The ending… excellent. It wasn’t a happy ending at all, well not to me. But it was a satisfying ending. Unfortunately I finished it at 11pm last night and proceeded to have horrible nightmares about the book.
This is not YA fantasy for the faint of heart.
I agree on this one. I didn’t quite have nightmares, but it was hard to get thru!