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Snow White Learns Witchcraft: Stories and Poems by Theodora Goss
4.0
So I love Fairy tales in any form. Like all short story collections there is always some stories you like more than others which is why I gave this book 4 stars. I enjoyed how the tales were reinvented! I enjoyed that there were links to things from our world like Shakespeare, Keats and Mobile which made the tales feel like they were part of our world rather than separate to it. The stories were quick reads and they flow really well. This is a book I would happily reread over and over again. It made me smile with the sort of dry humour it had in places.
Basically this reinvents classic fairy tales and makes them new classics! There are 31 tales and I wont go though them all but I will list the ones I liked the most and the few I didn't really enjoy. The tales are made to fit in between the 18th and 21st century and they feature magic, cannibalism, talking animals and all the other classic fairytale tropes that I love.
My favourite stories are;
Snow White Learns Witchcraft - After the classic fairy-tale from Snow's POV. Snow grows old and it asks what should women do when women grow old and useless? Become witches is the obvious answer which is what Snow does, she creates her own story after following the classic one.
The Ogress Queen - This one was short and creepy! It still became a favourite of mine though.
The Rose in Twelve Petals - retelling Maleficent and Sleeping Beauty so of course I enjoyed it.
Blanchefleur - Talking cats? yes please! I love tales about cats, there's also wolves and a dragon in this story.
Mr Fox - Moral of the story is to have your own set of Lock Picking tools.
Red as Blood and White as Bone - girl meets a magic princess who gets revenge on the Prince. She then goes on to help a resistance in ww2. It mixes fairy-tales and realism really well.
Goldilocks and the Bear - The bear helps the girl and then helps her again later in life and it is a wonderful tale with a happy ending. Loved the twists in this. It is my new favourite version of this story.
Other stories - The Gold-spinner, The Stepsisters tale (Cinderella) and the Clever Serving Maid were some of my favourites. The Princess and the Frog, What her Mother Said and Conversations with the Sea Witch were also great and had twists on the original tales that I liked better.
I found that I enjoyed the stories I have always liked more than the ones I did not know! I still enjoyed all of them but a few I found were just strange or didn't have enough of the original fairy-tale in them. I would still recommend this book for those who love fairy-tales or those who ant to try new fairy-tales. I will reread a few of the tales in this book multiple times.
Thank you to the publisher, Mythic Delirium Books , for providing me this advanced copy if the book via Netgalley.
Basically this reinvents classic fairy tales and makes them new classics! There are 31 tales and I wont go though them all but I will list the ones I liked the most and the few I didn't really enjoy. The tales are made to fit in between the 18th and 21st century and they feature magic, cannibalism, talking animals and all the other classic fairytale tropes that I love.
My favourite stories are;
Snow White Learns Witchcraft - After the classic fairy-tale from Snow's POV. Snow grows old and it asks what should women do when women grow old and useless? Become witches is the obvious answer which is what Snow does, she creates her own story after following the classic one.
The Ogress Queen - This one was short and creepy! It still became a favourite of mine though.
The Rose in Twelve Petals - retelling Maleficent and Sleeping Beauty so of course I enjoyed it.
Blanchefleur - Talking cats? yes please! I love tales about cats, there's also wolves and a dragon in this story.
Mr Fox - Moral of the story is to have your own set of Lock Picking tools.
Red as Blood and White as Bone - girl meets a magic princess who gets revenge on the Prince. She then goes on to help a resistance in ww2. It mixes fairy-tales and realism really well.
Goldilocks and the Bear - The bear helps the girl and then helps her again later in life and it is a wonderful tale with a happy ending. Loved the twists in this. It is my new favourite version of this story.
Other stories - The Gold-spinner, The Stepsisters tale (Cinderella) and the Clever Serving Maid were some of my favourites. The Princess and the Frog, What her Mother Said and Conversations with the Sea Witch were also great and had twists on the original tales that I liked better.
I found that I enjoyed the stories I have always liked more than the ones I did not know! I still enjoyed all of them but a few I found were just strange or didn't have enough of the original fairy-tale in them. I would still recommend this book for those who love fairy-tales or those who ant to try new fairy-tales. I will reread a few of the tales in this book multiple times.
Thank you to the publisher, Mythic Delirium Books , for providing me this advanced copy if the book via Netgalley.