Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love
This was where I originally left 'Fables' behind. It was more of the same, and I didn't feel the character development or the story at all at the time.
Rereading it, I can appreciate the broad strokes rendered with 'Bag of Bones', where Jack cheats death, 'Barleycorn Brides' and 'A Two-Part Caper' where a journalist finds out, the hard way, not to press Bigby too far. The meat of the collection is the arc where Bluebeard sets Goldilocks to kill Snow White and Bigby and Prince Charming campaigns to be the new Mayor of Fabletown. This still feels like a volume to get through rather than one to savor, but its better the second time around
The pace picks up significantly in the next volume.
Fables
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