Troll’s Eye
View, An anthology of tales on villain’s point of view. I love, love, love it.
It has the darkness of a Grimm fairy tale, the magic of Hans Christian Andersen
and it is all about the villains! The tales are beautifully crafted and the
much-maligned villains get their own tales. I love tales like these,
unconventional fairy tales like those written by Gregory Maguire and now by
these writers who wrote such brilliant retellings of the old fairy tales in a
villain’s point of view. I love that they give these villains a background
story and how they understood that they become villains for a reason, and that
maybe those annoying heroes or heroines in fairy tales are annoying little gits
who nose in on stuff which are none of their business. They are given a
voice by the best fantasy writers of my generation.
