Felt a little like Spindle's End, but not distinctly McKinley. I keep hoping to find a book that captures the magic of The Blue Sword and Chalice, but Intisar Khanani and Elisabeth George Speare and Shannon Hale keep doing that better than McKinley herself...

Ah well. All in all, a decent collection of retellings that felt like a grown-up version of Gail Carson Levine, with a little more ethereal terror and a little less whimsy. I liked it. I liked the audiobook reader. Probably the Princess & the Frog story was my favorite (but it needed more!).