A review by healingtothemax
Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas by Sibéal Pounder

1.0

A girl power redo of Christmas traditions crashes, its ideas too weighty to nimbly skim plot holes and its writing too uneven to capably string together its gender-realigned checklist into a coherent story. Middle grade is its marketed audience - yet its seesaw between whimsy and hysterical tones, emotional outbursts charged with physical violence by menacing males, young to old, is problematic and troubling - yet its real “reel” audience is media development scouts and its concept is ripe for acquisition with a solid rewrite. Tinsel would work well as an animated tale, its timely girls-can and eco-conscious messages told through vibrantly colorful scenes: Calling Ms. Claus for a miracle regifting.