The premise of Serendipity Market has the potential to be a beautiful book-a group of people come together to tell stories because the earth has gone off its tilt and must be put to rights. Each story has its own chapter. However the execution of the book is somewhat awry. The writing is awkward, especially as its in the present tense except when the storytellers are speaking. Even in the middle of the story, there are interjections of the storyteller's actions, which I felt detracted from the flow of each story.
Many of the stories are retellings of traditional fairy tales, and although its fun to try and guess which character matches what fairy tale, I feel that the author could have expressed her range much better in original stories. There was a lot of creativity in what she did write, and I feel that that was her biggest strength. Her writing wasn't as poetic as it could have been in a story this free-flowing, and she didn't get very in-depth with her characters, especially as a short story is not a format ideal for character developement.
In general, the book was interesting, but not amazing.
-Mistress Fu
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