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Fairy tale retellings with some twists. It was fun.Red Riding Hood: 2.5Snow White: 2.5Sleeping Beauty: 3Rapunzel: 4Jack and the Beanstalk: 3Hansel and Gretel: 3Beauty and the Beast: 5Bluebeard: 3Cinderella: 3The Little Mermaid: 4Rumpelstiltskin: 3Peter Pan: 3.5
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08.03.2021: "a beauty fights like a beast..." okay, I'm ready to read this right NOW.
~2.5 stars~To be completely honest with you all, this book wasn't what i initially expecting. this is a short collection of 12 fairy tale. Each of the stories is told with an enticing beginning, solid middle, and conclusive end, however there are a few that are vaguely open-ended. I'm not a big fan of this sort of books and this wasn't an exception. what I really think let me down the most was the promotion and the hype that soman chainai put himself . I mean, just look at this teaser and then t...
read my review on reads rainbow Rep: Black mc, Indian mcs, Chinese mc, gay mcsCWs: blood, gore, racism/racial trauma, emotional abuse, implied rape, implied child trafficking
Oh god. Finally, a worth while read this year. This book has a ton of fairytale retellings, and if I talk about each one and it's merits, we're going to be here forever, so I'm going to try to sum up the essence of this book instead. I've never read anything by this author before, but I did know this book is middle grade, and I've read a ton of fairytale retellings, so my hopes going into this were somewhat low. Even if I went into this with unfairly high expectations though, it would have excee...
3.5 stars - This feels like what you hand your kid when they're just old enough to process some of the more messed up elements baked into the European fairytale canon. I loved the subversive elements of this, along with the absolutely GORGEOUS illustrations from Julia Iredale. I'm not sure that many of these are super groundbreaking for adult readers, but as a lover of fairytale retellings, I still found this very enjoyable
4.5* - this was so fun :) short story anthologies aren’t always my thing bc I normally like all the loose ends being tied up and one cohesive narrative, but I still liked this - I enjoyed some stories more than others but it was overall still pretty enjoyable, the illustrations were so cool and I can’t wait to see what the author does next ______________________the cover 😩😩😩(on a serious note, I can't wait to see what soman does outside the world of The School for Good and Evil)
i am wildly grateful to have received an advanced copy of this collection!i am not grateful, however, for the irrationally busy college campus that sat and watched me have a good little cry on the lawn over a particular reference to the school for good and evil. (i definitely should have seen it coming earlier than i did, but i did not, so i was sat right out in the open when it hit. oh well.)in true chainani fashion, these reinvented stories restore the danger and ugliness of the original fairy...
An old, old fairy tale, the night is so long, the moon is in the skyWell, to begin with, I'm not your fairy godmother," the old woman answers with a strong unfamiliar accent. – I am Svetlana, Countess Varenikovskaya from Russia.Well, let's start with the fact that these are not quite familiar fairy tales from childhood. Although the characters and the plot outline of most coincide with those that we remember and love. Soman Chinani, the series on whose School of good and evil we are waiting for
I feel like I go moan about how much I hate 90% of all new fairy tale retellings like twice a day. On a good day maybe only once a day.This book fell into my lap (quite literally) just after I had finished reading For the Wolf (yikes) and this e-arc was graciously provided by HarperCollins and MBC: thank you! All opinions are my own.What this collection of fairy tales offers is a brand-new look at all the classic ones you know. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Hänsel and Gretel, The Little Me...
I want this cover framed on my wall yesterday, please
Beasts & Beauty by Soman Chainani, repsins and adds a new angle to the old stories we have all heard and grown up listening to. Stories like Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Rapunzel, Bluebeard, Sleeping Beauty, etc.The book has some amazing illustrations drawn by Julia Iredale which explains and depicts the new twist of the old stories very beautifully through her drawings. The gorgeous cover does proper justice to each story written inside.I feel these stories are for kids who have been reading fo...
For the most part this collection of adapted fairy tales was unsettling and uncomfortable, with a persistent sense of vaguely sexual predation throughout. While most of the stories explicitly call out the implied-sexual nature of many fairy tales (an established trope that, to be fair, Chainani has not invented), they tend to do so with a wink and a nod that requires the protagonists to participate in rather than simply subvert (for example, (view spoiler)[Red Riding Hood continues to demand a t...
