Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin by Liesl Shurtliff
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is another book that I liked, but didn't REALLY LIKE. It is a bit like a song I recently wrote. It was a one joke song and it is funny, but it could have been more.
In this case, there is a central problem and the entire story seems to be a giant build-up to an almost pun-like answer. And some of the convolutions along the way just didn't quite have the air of adding quite enough to the story. In a way, some of the side stories were actually more interesting than the main story. The aunts were interesting; Red and her family were interesting.
Another problem was that the solution to the problem was so convoluted that I am not sure I get it. The definitions of the various parts of the name didn't quite come clear enough to me to make me think, "Ah ha!, so that is what it is all about!"
In the end, I would have liked to learn more about the various people and less about the spinning. And the donkey was a complete wash for me.
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