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A review by annettebooksofhopeanddreams
The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
This book was the very reason I ordered my very first Fairyloot box. We all know how that ended, but it still took me a few months before I finally opened the book and read it. And now I really regret that I didn't read it sooner!
All tales are slightly twisted versions of fairytales everyone's familiar with. Bardugo wrote tales based on "Hansel and Gretl", "The little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast" and "the Nutcracker" for example. But, each of those stories is twisted, most of the time even slightly dark, or really dark. They know different endings, have this turn at the very end that no one really sees coming and are surprising in their familiarity. And each one of those stories is beautiful in its own way.
Apart from the story there is something else setting this book apart: The Wonderful illustrations. Each fairytale is told by the growing and developing frame, giving hints for the story, making it even more vivid and beautiful than Bardugo's writing already does. By the very end of the story this leads to a complete full color picture and they're all, one by one, breathtaking beautiful.
I think this has easily become my favorite fairytale book now and I can't wait to dive back into the Grisha verse when "King of Scars" is released.
All tales are slightly twisted versions of fairytales everyone's familiar with. Bardugo wrote tales based on "Hansel and Gretl", "The little Mermaid", "Beauty and the Beast" and "the Nutcracker" for example. But, each of those stories is twisted, most of the time even slightly dark, or really dark. They know different endings, have this turn at the very end that no one really sees coming and are surprising in their familiarity. And each one of those stories is beautiful in its own way.
Apart from the story there is something else setting this book apart: The Wonderful illustrations. Each fairytale is told by the growing and developing frame, giving hints for the story, making it even more vivid and beautiful than Bardugo's writing already does. By the very end of the story this leads to a complete full color picture and they're all, one by one, breathtaking beautiful.
I think this has easily become my favorite fairytale book now and I can't wait to dive back into the Grisha verse when "King of Scars" is released.