A review by shogins
The Door in the Hedge by Robin McKinley

4.0

This is a collection of some of McKinley’s shorter works. Two are tellings of well-known fairy tales, “The Princess and the Frog” and “The Twelve Dancing Princesses”, and the other two were stories I was not familiar with beforehand, but was equally enchanted with after reading. McKinley has a gift with language, and it’s a pleasure to read her prose. Her deft hands means that the familiar stories are read in new ways, and the new stories feel just as timeless. “The Stolen Princess” was a look at faerieland and changelings I hadn’t read before and particularly enjoyed.