A Tao tale for adults. Excellent. ( )

Although this story is called "A Fairy Tale for Consenting Adults" this titillating banner has nothing to do with what you would call "adult content". I think it has more to do with the dry narrative that might prove a little dull to a younger reader (or me, since I'm pretty immature). The story was an unusual way of re-telling the Frog Prince fairy tale and despite the analytical view it pretty much followed the original storyline. It did give extra insight as to the inner motivations the characters had for what they did, which was interesting. One thing I don't remember from the original tale was the chucking of the frog at the wall but, that could just be that I never got to the end of the fairy tale before.

Despite the fact that I realize this was probably supposed to be a witty and clever re-telling, I feel that I really didn't get it. This could just be me and I would hate to discourage anyone from trying out the story for themselves should they have an interest. ( )

ok last part!

This book is, as expected, a retelling of the story of the frog prince. I've heard the story before "there was this frog, and a princess kissed it, and it turned into a prince, and they got married" but i thought that was it but.... this is not so.

The feeling of this story is kind of like you're invisible and you're watching the princess and frog and how their story unfolds. It's like the omniscient narrator is letting you look into his binoculars. Stalker. Anyway.

The story is nice, and the princess seems really cool (she could kick Anna Percy's arse.). However, everyone seems quite pedantic. Maybe that's the right word. Well, they seem pedantic to me. I don't get why the author felt like he had to have the narrator give all these speches about how entropy and thermodynamics don't apply to the soul and love. I've heard that kind of stuff in movies so it wasn't very appealing to me in a book. I got used to it though. It's stylistic and i bet it was hard to keep up the style like that.

read? Yeah. It's refreshing. or something. ( )

Very, very well written. A memorable story line. ( )