Title: Complete Fairy Tales

Author: Hans Christian Anderson

Genre: Short stories; fairy tales

Pages: 1504

Rating: 3/5 stars

Reading Challenges: T4MC -- Short Stories; Genre -- Short Stories; Ebook; 52 Books -- Week 9

How I Got It: iPad download

Reared in poverty, Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen created more than 200 folk and fairy tales beloved by countless generations of children -- and adults.

Overall I am very disappointed in this story collection.  I adore the Grimm fairy tales and thought this would be similar.  I was mistaken.  These are morality tales cloaked in sometimes a fanciful nature (I know the Grimm stories are too, but they hide it better).  They are overtly Christian in their subject matter and tone.  I just didn't enjoy these stories.  I find my mind wandering while reading.  I couldn't kept on track.  It's taken me almost three weeks to get through this volume a bit at a time.  I made it, but I won't be revisiting this volume any time in the future.  I'll stick with my Grimm tales.