Five Glass Slippers by Anne Elisabeth Stengl

My absolute top pick was 'Falling Snow.' The first time I read it, it knocked my metaphorical socks off. Obviously, this had nothing to do with how good a judge I am, but the fact that I mysteriously got better stories to read than the other judges, it would seem! Which makes me feel a special sort of protective love for this collection. three of the stories in this book are stories I selected as the best from the 20+ I read. And then the contest was out of my hands, and others made the final decision of which stories would win and be in this collection. I chose my top 5 from the ones I read, plus some honorable mentions. There were multiple judges for the first round, so I only got to read like a sixth of the stories submitted. I was on the judging panel for this contest. And all so different! But the truth is, 'Falling Snow' speaks to me in a way that few fairy tale retellings have, and so. In fact, I feel a little bad about having such a huge favorite in this collection, because all 5 stories are excellent. But anyway, I loved the whole collection. I had to stop between a couple of them because of other need-to-be-read-now books, which happens a lot to me right now. well, the trouble, you see, is that I love 'Falling Snow' by Skye Hoffert so much that I just read 'Falling Snow' all over again.īut then I was a good, well-behaved reader and did move on and read the rest of the stories. And then I got busy, and Christmas happened, and so on, and when I picked the book back up again in January. When my paperback copy arrived, I finished reading 'Falling Snow' by Skye Hoffert, the first story in the collection. I started reading it immediately on my Kindle the night it was released in early December.

I have finally finished reading all five stories in Five Poisoned Apples.

Five Glass Slippers by Anne Elisabeth Stengl