Irish Fairy Tales by Flame Tree Studio

Irish Fairy Tales Reviews

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  Bailey

  First to review... No pressure or anything. Someone else reviewed Flame Tree Studio's Celtic Myths collection and used the words "dry" and "reference book"; took the words right out of my mouth. I feel awful for not enjoying this collection. I mean, Irish Fairy Tales in a cover this beautiful? Sign me up! But I couldn't get lost in most of these (I found a few diamonds in the rough). Don't hate me... But after a while, it felt like I was reading the same story over and over again. There was little to no variation in the tales, and I don't mean the settings; people, there are only so many stories you can give me on the Pooka. So far, these editions aren't impressing me, I mean, Bram Stoker's collection was shaky at best. That seems to be the case with these guys. But please, don't take my word for it (Reading Rainbow, much), in that not many people have read these editions, so the ratings are more than a bit skewed. I feel like such a ditz whenever I don't like books that should be tailor made for me (My favorite college courses were regional fairy tales/myths, for crying out loud!) Maybe I just need to find a better edition of Irish tales?
• 
  Edith Smith

  Classic Irish fairy tails. Won't be disappointed.
• 
  Ian Castricum

  Some stories were quite fun, and others just dragged on confusingly, or were cunfusing, or were confusingly fun. So i would read this as bed time stories one story a night.