Bleh! You ever bite into what looks like yummy piece of chocolate, all decorated with caramel icing, only for it to taste GROSS when you reach the center? 
 Well, that's how I felt, reading this book. I was SOOO excited when I first heard the author of Mermaid, one of my all time FAVORITE books, had written a Rapunzel/Snow White crossover. For months I've been dying to read this and FINALLY got it out of the library. 
 And my god, it's HORRID! 
 Rapunzel is a terrible first person character, whose telling of the story is a constant repeat of three elements. One: The weather (seriously, she ALWAYS mentions THE FREAKING WEATHER AND SEASON), two: How she feels while having sex (these scenes are hysterically badly written, I might add, as well as redundant) and three: her/other people's angst as felt through her magic hair. 
 The romance (BOTH of them, Rapunzel and the prince and the Rapunzel/Gilles thing) was forced and made no sense. There was no SHOWN build up to Rapunzel and Gilles falling for each other; we just had to believe it cuz "the book says so". 
 I felt sorriest for Snow White, the ONLY halfway likable character in the entire book, who of course gets a houseful of rapist bandits instead of dwarfs. It's like a bad rip off of "Snow White: A tale of terror" except boring. 
 At first, reading this book even though I was already beginning to dislike it on its merits as a story, I could tell Turgeon wrote it because she had some simply beautiful prose. Then this petered out, and it was just the same drivel OVER AND OVER AND OVER. 
 Won't read it again, that's for sure. 
 Please just read Mermaid instead, it's a much better example of this author's work!