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Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani

a_muggle's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing stories, and the narrator did a fantastic job. I'll definitely listen to this again.

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breerashel's review against another edition

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adventurous fast-paced

4.75

helloakosisam's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

iamastraythought's review

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mysterious reflective tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

An extremely good collection of retellings. 

leari's review

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adventurous emotional fast-paced
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0

One of the best modern fairy tale collection! The twelve stories are very diverse, have unique twists, add to the original tale, and some are even heartbreaking. It's sad that it is over so soon, I would have loved to read even more stories.

Average rating: 3.9/5 🌟

Individual ratings:

4/5 🌟 Red Riding Hood: Every year the prettiest girl in town is to be sacrificed to the wolves.

3/5 🌟 Snow White: This Black Snow White is not as naive as you might think.

3/5 🌟 Sleeping Beauty: A beautiful boy wakes up with small red-rimmed wounds every day...

4/5 🌟 Rapunzel: Love is not as simple as it might seem.

3/5 🌟 Jack and the Beanstalk: An interesting twist on family dynamics and gender roles.

5/5 🌟 Hansel and Gretel: This retelling set in India shows you who the real witch is. It's so good! 😍

5/5 🌟 Beauty and the Beast: This one puts 'Belle' in a whole different light. And the ending made me cry. 😢

3/5 🌟 Bluebeard: Orphan boys get sold to Bluebeard but our mc might have a dark side.

4/5 🌟 Cinderella: What if Cinderella was not his true love after all? Prepare for a talking mouse and a Russian witch. Very cute and funny!

5/5 🌟 The Little Mermaid: The sea witch and the little mermaid have a deep talk. Love the ending! ❤

3/5 🌟 Rumpelstiltskin: Well, none of these people are truly good. It's a shame, really.

5/5 🌟 Peter Pan: Wendy is searching for love. This was heartbreaking and made me sob. So sad! 😭 

gabi15's review

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5.0

4.5/5

remescient's review

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adventurous dark lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

There are stories in this book that were really well done and even fantastic, but they're overshadowed by too many that just felt mediocre. I'm also just not a huge fan of the illustrations- many times it felt like the illustrations were very generic when the story itself was painting a deliberate and specific picture.

lsparrow's review

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4.0

loved this collection of fairy tale retellings. I particularly liked the snow white and red riding hood stories. Both the stories themselves and the biggest lessons/questions that are asked.

caffeinated_bee's review

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adventurous fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.0

theclairewitchproject's review

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0