Faery Tales & Nightmares product reviews

I chose to review this book because of the title and the really ghostly looking cover photo.

I read this book in a few short days, as it was quite the page turner, and personally I think it's awesome for a short story novella. I would have to say it's the only short story novella that gets five stars from me.

Faery Tales & Nightmares has an easy to read font layout, which I find helpful also to read faster.

There are two short stories that stuck out for me, and one of them is "Winter's Kiss". This story invited me into a winter wonderland and the story quickly revealed to me, in my opinion that Melissa Marr (Author), is a modern day female version of the famous vintage author, Hans Christian Anderson. Marr, writes so finitely and weaves a glorious picture in your mind, taking you to a virtual enchanted tale, that is also full of sadness. It provoked the same emotion as when I read the "Tin Soldier" a long time ago.

Melissa Marr brings the ink words on the pages to life, and I was immediately sucked into the Faery world, and I didn't want reality anymore, her writing is that picturesque.

The other short story I absolutely loved, and this is my top favourite was "Love struck", about the Selchie Menfolk. This was an original story to me, as I have never read anything like this before, and I was actually gutted when this short story ended. I hope Melissa Marr will write a full novel based on "Love struck" as I was hooked on this story. This was mainly because, the Selchie did everything to try and get his mate to feel loved, and he paid for a Moccachino and brought back a big plate selection of sweet bakery treats and other romantic gestures that captured my heart and kept me hopeful that someone in my life is more of a Selchie.

The Wicked Lovely short stories in this novel were very interesting about the faery court and their characters, but I feel because I haven't read the series, I was at a loss as to the storyline. In saying this I have ordered "Wicked Lovely" from my local library so I can read this lovely faery series.

The most scariest and vile nightmarish story was "Flesh for comfort". Oh my goodness if this was turned into a movie, not many viewers could watch this!!! This story haunted me after I read it, and I had to share the tale with my FiancĂ ©e. The story was sick, original, my partner loved it and actually so did I, it was totally shock worthy and fun factored.

I love the short stories more than the Wicked Lovely add ins, although that's because of not reading it before.

I recommend this short story novella to any young adult or adult, that has an interest of reading a decent short story book that will have you loving the characters in a short amount of time. That's how epic Melissa Marr writes her work. And already i'm missing the Selchie story!!!!

Now as I read this novella, I have found the following grammatical or punctuation problems (computer error):
- Bottom of page 85 "With a speed. Shouldn't have been possible"....
- Middle of page 163 "and if I'm not able to face Devlin, I need replaced as the Gabriel, so I'm not needing protection" (doesn't sound right)