Coal Black and Other Disturbingly Perverse Fairy Tales Review

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Coal Black and Other Disturbingly Perverse Fairy Tales ReviewCoal Black is a collection of short stories loosely based upon several popular fairy tales. The title story is an interesting, albeit unoriginal, take on the tale of Snow White as told from the perspective of the Evil Queen. A few pages in to the story, the reader abruptly discovers that while the princess, Snow White, appears as beautiful and pure as the driven snow, her soul is as black as......coal. Thanks to Snow's machiavellian machinations, the "Evil" Queen goes overnight from being a blushing, hopeful bride to a blood spattered victim of domestic violence, reviled by her subjects and utterly helpless to combat her murderous step-daughter. No good deed goes unpunished as the Wicked Queen desperately attempts to restore her good name.
Unfortunately, the Queen is her own worst enemy, since she is as vain and selfish as her step-daughter makes her out to be. She is apparently incapable of performing any act of kindness or charity without the expectation of a return. When the people of her kingdom fail to fall at her feet and worship her for her so called good deeds, the Queen descends into a spiral of self-pitying withdrawal. This culminates in a brilliant plan to escape reality: the Queen decides to dress in her handmaidens clothing and go out amongst the people in "disguise." Honestly, I'm thinking that if these people don't know what you look like to the extent that changing your dress constitutes a disguise, you have bigger problems with your reign than a crazy step-daughter. But I digress.
The Queen's relationship with Snow is surprisingly well-written. In fact, it's so well-written one can't help but wonder if the author had some experience with deep loathing tempered by wild attraction to a girl she was jealous of. The Queen is clearly drawn to this Snow for whom she professes such unadulterated loathing. The most disturbing evidence of this fascination is the Queen's constant stalking of Snow via the magic mirror. Rather than reassuring the Queen that she is the fairest of them all, the chief function of the mirror in this story is to provide the Queen with twenty-four hour surveillance footage of the object of her obsession. Soon any independent thought or emotion is stripped from the Queen as her life is reduced to a pathetic stream of reactions to Snow's actions. Snow effortlessly usurps everything in life the Queen reaches for: her fortune, her subjects, every man she ever loves. The sexual relationship between Snow and the King is almost an afterthought.
Oddly enough, the only onscreen sex scene in the story, between the Queen and the Woodsman, is disappointingly dry and fast. With an odd and somewhat disturbing focus on the virgin's blood. Given the amount of sexual tension between Snow and the Queen, I would have expected more from the author in that department. Honestly, this story reads like porn without plot, which would have great, if there had been some porn. The Woodsman himself is a character so filled with emotional and behavioral extremes as to seem psychotic, bordering on multiple-personality disorder. Nowhere is this more evident than in the romantic interactions between the Woodsman and the Queen. One minute the Woodsman is taking the Queen's virginity with an almost sadistic roughness, the next he is gently holding her and stroking her hair. Apparently to lull her to sleep so he can avoid the walk of shame by climbing out the window.
Overall, the story is an entertaining read and a solid first effort by a promising new author. Despite glaring character inconsistencies and plot holes large enough to have their own gravitational pull, Coal Black has a dark fascination about it that drags the reader along to the inevitable conclusion. I hope there will be a sequel telling the story of the Queen's final battle with Snow. I also hope that if there is, the author will have a proofreader.
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