Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16915 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-06
• Released on: 2006-12-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

From Booklist
Fabletown's ex-sheriff Bigby Wolf and ex-deputy mayor (and power behind King Cole's former mayoral throne) Snow White finally tie the knot in this arc from the series about the fairy-tale characters who walk among us (or, at least, New Yorkers). That can't happen before Mowgli finds missing, moping Bigby and the latter undertakes a reprisal mission against the Adversary. Those exploits give Mark Buckingham a lot to draw with the energetic elegance that has become a Fables hallmark and that Shawn McManus does his best to match in the related but freestanding short story, "Big and Small." Ray Olson
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Customer Reviews

The story continues and grows
Willingham and crew continue to do a great job with this entertaining and imaginative series. For those of you who came in late: fairy tale characters are real - and living in exile in New York. War has driven them from their homelands, and inner divisions have threatened their secretive society in our mundane world.

The story moves smoothly, with all the things that a long-lived series needs: old threads to wind down, new ones to explore, and continuity to pull us along. The old involves Bigby wolf, living in self-imposed exile. It turns out that his unique skills can help Fabletown in a daring counter-attack against the nearly-unstoppable opponents. A year-long search ends his absence and, at the same time, starts a new phase in the ongoing war. Another new element arises near the end of this collection, when emissaries form a tottery alliance with the cloud kingdom at the top of Jack's beanstalk. Continuity comes from Jack's family, the charming litter of six-plus-one children and their mother, Snow White, and their new life together.

I recommend that you read these books in order. Collections 1 through 7 set the background of events and characters taken for granted in this, the eighth. I really just recommend that you read them, though. The series sustains its energy well and, even more than at the beginning, I really want to follow the lives of these wonderful characters.

-- wiredweird

Yay!
My second favorite of the series so far. So much happens in book 8... Things readers have been waiting on since book 5 come about and there's romance and violence and politics and general badassery from my favorite characters. Can't wait to get the next one!

One of my favorite series - still loving it.
This is a welcome addition to the series. It was a little shorter than I would have liked but it left me satiated.