A review by inwetiewele
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul by Nikita Gill

emotional hopeful reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? N/A
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Most of the poems & short stories in this book were hit or miss for me. The misses weren’t bad at all but some of them relied a little to heavily on cliches. The hits hit hard and took no prisoners.

“You must lift a sword
with reborn strength and take on
the demons in your ribcage.”

“What I am trying to say is,
I know now that becoming kind
is worth every single exhausting effort
and sometimes it takes a thousand years.”

“So now I love my tinderbox heart
so easy to light up,
all it takes is half a spark.
 
A woman’s anger can change the world,
I know mine can and this is not a gift
I will give away.
 
I am small and I am angry,
it is how I channel my energy
and I like me that way.”

“Call me gross
Call me stupid
Call me disgusting
 
None of those names
can ever hurt me again
I am a thousand treacherous things
 
I was not made
To be lovely for you
I was made to eat monsters for ME”

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Content Warnings

Minor: Child abuse, Self harm, and Sexual harassment

All mentions of triggering content are brief & vague. Merely attempting to imply at a given characters history most of which you will already know as the characters are from famous fairytales.