Modern Magic is a collection of four novellas that purport to be updates of classic fairy tales. Three of them do that with varying degrees of success. "A Late Blooming Rose" is a Beauty and the Beast tale in which the beast is a young woman confined to a wheelchair. "Music to Her Ears" takes on Goldilocks in a too-short story about a personal assistant hired to work for three musician brothers. "Fairy Trouble" is an interesting spin on Cinderella in which the fairy godmother is the one who goes to the ball. And I don't know what "His One Wish" was trying to be. Perhaps Aladdin since there was a computer program called Genie and a villain named Jin. But the last story didn't feel like a fairy tale at all - too many gun battles, too much blood and too much sex. Since I was in the mood for something a little more fantastical, "His One Wish" kind of spoiled the rest of the book for me and dragged down my overall rating.