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    Never Ever After: Three Short Stories
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    Never Ever After: Three Short Stories

    By Ruth Nestvold

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    About this ebook

    Three previously published fantasy short stories by Ruth Nestvold.

    "A Serca Tale" is a retelling of the old Irish legend "The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne."

    "King Orfeigh": A young Irish king has lost his wife to the king of Faerie. Is there any way he can win her back?

    "Happily Ever Awhile": Everyone knows the story of the filthy girl who married the prince by not bleeding into a glass slipper. But what happened to Ellie after the happy ending?

    Never Ever After is a short story collection of approximately 9000 words.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Dragon Books
    Release dateJan 23, 2013
    ISBN9781497797970
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    Never Ever After: Three Short Stories
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    Ruth Nestvold

    A former assistant professor of English in the picturesque town of Freiburg on the edge of the Black Forest, Ruth Nestvold has given up theory for imagination. The university career has been replaced by a small software localization business, and the Black Forest by the parrots of Bad Cannstatt, where she lives with her fantasy, her family, her books and no cats in a house with a turret. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous markets, including Asimov's, F&SF, Baen's Universe, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, and Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction. Her fiction has been nominated for the Nebula, Tiptree, and Sturgeon Awards. In 2007, the Italian translation of her novella "Looking Through Lace" won the "Premio Italia" award for best international work. Her novel Flamme und Harfe appeared in translation with the German imprint of Random House, Penhaligon, in 2009 and has since been translated into Dutch and Italian.

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    • 3/5
      I wouldn't say I didn't like this collection of short stories, I did, just for me it didn't hit all the right buttons. The stories were well told, the traditional tale well envisioned, and there was great emotion in all of the stories. The originality in the Cinderella retelling was commendable, so I don't understand why I didn't like it a whole lot better than I did.
    • 4/5
      As this is a book of short stories, I will try to say something about each story... The first story, A Serca Tale, I found myself thinking that everything that needed to happen to move the plot along happened because of some kind of spell. I was upset that this would be the thing to push the plot along. There could have been more to the story of a woman trying to get out of an arranged marriage, but I felt more like this was just the quick throwing together of two people. There was some good story in it, I just wasn't captivated.The second story, King Orfeigh was very interesting to me. I found it touching that a man would do all he could to find the woman he loved, that he would give up everything in order to be with her again. The journey of how he does this, and why, is the interesting part, so I won't reveal it.Happily Ever Awhile is literally a Cinderella story, but it is honest and real. What happens after the wedding? How does family and the court and happiness blend together into something that is manageable and all within reach? It's both heartwarming and a heart breaker, which isn't as unbalanced as it sounds.
    • 4/5
      I'll review the three stories in Never Ever After one-by-one.A Serca Tale: In a lot of stories, heroes are portrayed as universally likeable. Every woman wants him, and every man wants to be him. But what if there's a woman that doesn't want him, but has been promised to him by people that assume she does? This story is set in an Eriu similar to that of Yseult, so I enjoyed the familiarity. I wish that the heroine hadn't fled one man only to end up with another, but I suppose it's the freedom of choice that matters. I did enjoy the story, though.King Orfeigh: I really enjoyed this story, which tells of a king who has lost his wife to the faerie king, and has been trying to find her and win her back. It's written in the second person, which I found kind of jarring at first, but got used to pretty quickly. The story is heartfelt and touching.Happily Ever Awhile: This story explores Cinderella's life after she marries her young Prince Charming and lives "happily ever after." Being married to a prince has its drawbacks – he has to rule a kingdom, and lead its men to war if there is one. Ellie manages to find happiness, though. Happily Ever Awhileis a fun story, and manages to balance the fairy tale and the realistic quite well.Overall, a great collection of stories!Originally posted on my blog.