kierli 's review for:

Love in Colour: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold by Bolu Babalola

3.0

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The good stories were fun and flirty at best, the ones I didn't enjoy were generally yucky and like pulling teeth (in the not for me way), and the Psyche one pissed me off (the myth of Psyche and Eros as workplace romance? When any forced proximity tropes would have suited the themes better? Also, the goddess Venus as bitchy sister instead of domineering mother changes the power dynamics and weakens the story entirely! The plot points scream 2010s girl boss fantasy). Less than half of the thirteen stories are worth it.