This is a decent collection of short fairy tales, some based on familiar stories with a twist and some original. You can easily dip in and out as most of the stories are a maximum of a few pages long. This I liked. However, I often found maybe as a detriment because of this shortness, that most of the stories ended very abruptly. In particular, 'Milk Teeth', my favourite and first of the stories, ends just as we're getting into the action and I wanted to read more of this rather than on two pages about a mermaid. Some of the stories we loosely linked - 'Milk Teeth' and 'Toothless' for example, but not coherently enough for my liking.

The random swearing that sprung up in 'Beauty' I also found off putting and I felt it jarred with the intended audience. I'm all for swearing, but it has to be used in context.