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Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed

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Weird, witty collection of short stories. Not necessarily something I enjoyed, but still liked in the end.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity.

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3.5 stars

These tales were all very different in their own unique way. Some I loved and some not so. The ones I loved I wanted to stay in the grips of that particular short story. I loved the idea of this collection (Happy ending NOT guaranteed) which in my eyes is life and some peoples lives are not a fairy tales.

Definitely worth reading.

( this will appear on the below blog nearer the publication date

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First of all, I adore the cover! I haven't read a short story collection before so I didn't know if I'd like the style but I loved it; the writing style is a wonderful mix of witty, sarcastic contemporary language and fairytale/folktale connotations and themes - yes, yes, yes!

Some of the stories in this collection were VERY short and I mean a few pages long which I'm not used to so it was a little strange and for some of the stories I just wanted more and more rather than a few short pages. For quite a lot of the short stories, there were strong magical, fairytale and folktale vibes which I loved such as the stories: Snow-White, Whiteclaw and Blaxley and The Painted Platform but then there were some mediocre ones, in my opinion. There was only one negative and it's not about the actual book but the formatting on my Kindle app - throughout the book some of the beginnings of sentences had mouse head emojis and on other pages a group of words were smushed together rather than being separate - it was very distracting! Overall, I really liked this short, quick and magical short story collection that left me wanting more!

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