ohiobookgal 's review for:

The Charmed Wife by Olga Grushin

4.0

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This was such an imaginative and slightly odd book, but I found it really entertaining. I had thought it to be a fairy tale retelling but it really isn’t at all. Instead, the author uses fairy tales and nursery rhymes as metaphors to discuss serious issues such as marriage, motherhood, self identity, family, aging and love...or perhaps infatuation disguised as love. I did find some parts to drag a bit, such as the sections about the mice. Reading it definitely makes you give a second look at those HEA in the fairy tales from childhood! It’s a shorter book and a quick read that took me on an unexpected and thought provoking journey. 3.5/5⭐️ rounded up