The Starlit Wood : New Fairy Tales (Paperback)

from chavala

3.5 stars. I love fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales. But I also have a love-hate relationship with anthologies, because there's always stories I don't like. No exception here. My favorites were: Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar (striking, worth every award it got) The Briar and...

from ElleGato

This was so beautiful! Everything about this story was perfect, I loved the message of love and support; how women blame themselves for what men do to them, how women can heal one another...ugh THIS WAS SO GOOD

from pwaites

Trigger warning: rape The Starlit Wood is an anthology containing eighteen entirely new retold and genre mixing fairy tales from some of SFF's best writers. The full author line up is as follows: Charlie Jane Anders, Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Jeffrey Ford, Max Gladstone, Theodora Goss, D...

from

When they say fairy tales retold, they don't mean “Rapunzel in middle school” or “Cinderella in cyberpunk“. This is more “crank up the maturity by adding sex, drugs, and woman abuse” type of retelling. The themes are skewed toward “men are the devil, women are helpless”. The writing is parched an...

from foggidawn

A collection of short stories, all retold fairy tales. I slogged through this book, and that's unusual for me and fairy tales. Out of eighteen, I enjoyed four and found five more just okay, and the rest I hated, albeit to varying degrees. What can I say? I got sucked in by a pretty cover, and the...