CINDERELLA: FABLES ARE FOREVER TRADE PAPERBACK
Someone has murdered Mr. Kadabra at the farm and left a calling card in the form of a silverslipper ornament for Fabletown’s greatest spy Cinderella. She heads towards her brownstone apartment in Brooklyn only to find Ivan Durak asking for help. The Russian tyrant Tugarin Zmeyevich put out a contract on him and ordered an American assassin known as Silverslipper to do the deed. The assassin is the same as the one who murdered Mr. Kadabra. Cinderalla agrees to help out her fellow Russian able Ivan Durak against the assassin Silverslipper who is really the Wicked Bitch of the East Dorothy Gale.
Dorothy Gale left Oz and headed towards Fabletown in 1943 however her friends had to go to the farm. Angry that her friends couldn’t join her in Fabletown, Dorothy left and no one saw her again. While on a mission in Russia in 1983 searching for a Soviet Fabletown, Cinderalla faces Dorothy and Tugarin Zmeyevich who transforms into a dragon and runs away. Back in 1984 Cinderalla was searching for another shadow Fabletown in Thailand however comes face-to-face with Dorothy again and runs away again.
Cinderalla and Ivan travel to Thailand to meet Madame Meng who is the head of the Chinese Fable community. Madame Meng may have the means to contact and locate Dorothy Gale. However Madame Meng meets an untimely death from a creature from Oz called a Chiss.
SERIES HIGHLIGHTS
- Before her death Madame Meng manages to tell Cinderella where to go next
- African Fable Anansi captures Cinderella for the Dorothy in 1985
- History repeats itself as Anansi traps and captures Cinderella again
- Cinderella used Snow White as bait during their trip to Switzerland in 1986
- Cinderalla saves the kidnapped Snow White by pushing Dorothy over the falls
- Cinderella and Ivan are taken through a portal to the one of the Homelands
- Ivan drugs Cinderella who later reveals to be the assassin Dorothy Gale
The finale of this series leaves you unfilled as Cinderella taunts Dorothy into letting her go so they could fight one-on-one. It becomes anticlimactic as the issue of Dorothy goes unresolved as she falls supposedly to her death again. Would have been nice if the history of the silver slippers were revealed as the movie version of the Wizard of Oz changed them to ruby red shoes. The previous Cinderella series had a clever ending as she dealt with her Fairy Godmother however this one leaves you hanging.
NEEDS IMPROVEMENT – 3 OUT OF 5
