The voices – I loved the way James Riley added a new character’s voice in each book. Among the characters who make an appearance: Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Snow White, the Wicked Queen (of course), Malevolent (or Maleficent), the Beast, Little Red Riding Hood, the Little Mermaid, Peter Pan … I could go on a lot longer.ģ.
The fairy tales – I can’t believe how many fairy tale characters he inserted into these books, making them completely familiar and yet giving them a spin that makes you think the storytellers are the ones who were wrong before. I can only assume James Riley planned this as a trilogy from the beginning, because I don’t know how it would all work so well together otherwise.Ģ.
Everything ties together – There are loose ends in the first book I’d completely forgotten about until they got tied up in the third book. Here are the five things I loved most about the series as a whole.ġ. How can this possibly end happily? Particularly when, between Jack and Phillip, one is destined to betray May and the other is destined to die?
He’s just on the wrong side, having joined the Wicked Queen’s elite group of spies, the Eyes. And Jack … actually, Jack’s doing pretty well. Phillip’s doomed to a boring life as a prince, his adventures over. I’m going to keep my actual points spoiler-free.Īfter the events of TWICE UPON A TIME, May’s trapped in a house with an evil stepmother, unable to leave without the Wicked Queen finding her. It’s a bit spoilery for the first two books, so you might want to skip over it. This review is actually going to be more of a series recommendation, but here’s the description for ONCE UPON THE END. It helps that I didn’t start the series until the third book came out :). But that’s how I felt about the HALF UPON A TIME series. It’s been a while since I read a book and just had to read the next, and the next right away. So, I usually wouldn’t review two books by the same author in the same series so close together, but I can’t help myself. Mason & filed under Middle Grade Review, Reviews.
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