A review by qwordyq
Tangleweed and Brine by Deirdre Sullivan

2.0

I'm disappointed that I didn't love this. I went in expecting Fairy Tale retellings and what I got was strange, second-person, depressing and triggering aspects from those fairy tales. It felt like an anthology of stories about how badly women get treated. Some of the stories weren't actual retellings at all but like taking a bare breath of a concept and saying it's Red Riding Hood or Beauty and the Beast when they hold zero similarities to the original work. There were a few stories I liked in this, the ones for Bluebeard and Donkeyskin were good but the rest were just sad. The prose was interesting, definitely not what I'm used to but I can see why people like it. It just wasn't for me.