The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles-Book Review

Today I  get to be part of a blog tour introducing R. M. Archer's fantastic story to the world.  My part of the tour is a book review, so lets dive in. (I received an early copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.)  

The blurb: All the fairytales you've heard are wrong. They've all been twisted to be acceptable for general consumption, but I'm here to set the record straight.  I'm Solem Anders, Mirror-Hunter, and this is what really happened.

A Series of Unfortunate Events meets Disney in this short story series as Solem Anders pursues a volatile magic mirror across Ambrel, seeking to destroy it and end its trail of tragedy. But when princess Eira steps in his path and enlists his help to overthrow her mother, he is lured into her Pack by the promise of information. Is this the shortest path to the mirror, or just a treacherous diversion?

With the mirror barely out of reach, Solem's time is ticking away, and he'll lose far more than a princess when the clock strikes.

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The Mirror-Hunter Chronicles is a wonderful retelling of a lot of different fairytales mostly told from one mans point of view, Solem Anders. There are five chapters in this book. The first two are retellings of Jack and the Beanstalk and Hansel and Gretel, and the next three chapters have some retellings sprinkled  around (Alice Through the Looking Glass, Snow White, etc). My favorite was Hansel and Gretel's story.
I really liked how she twisted old fairytales and gave them new meaning. And Kinely. I love Kinely. She is my favorite character by far. The ending is wonderful as well. It is so bittersweet, and I like that it doesn't end "and they lived happily ever after" because it makes it feel more believable.I give it five shooting stars.
If it were a movie I would rate it PG because of the way one of the characters dies at the end.

She is publishing it in six days, so keep an eye out for it on Amazon.

R.M. Archer has been an avid reader since she was a toddler and has always been a lover of stories. Her first exploration of the other side of the page was a mystery at age seven, and though her preferred genre has changed, her interest in writing has not. She's a homeschooled teenager living with her family in northern Virginia.