Not all tales have a happy ending,
not all happy endings are in the arms of a prince.

I really liked how these short reimaginings often made me take a second to ponder them afterwards! The book had beautiful illustrations to boot!

i think fairytales fundamentally have a sense of terror to them, as a kid this seemed obvious yet unimportant, but as you get older you start to question what it actually is you should be so afraid of. i adored these stories and i know i’ll  come back to them.

My biggest pet peeve with this book is that it doesn’t use quotation marks. Why not??
Anyways, I enjoyed the spin on classic fairytales it, it was interesting and fun to read. Also I love how culturally diverse the characters were! I did a little cheer each time they weren’t defaulted to being white. Plus the ways that aspects of their backgrounds were integrated into the story really added to the reading experience for me.

Here’s my ranking of the short stories:
1) Beauty and the Beast (the “is he rich?” line really sealed the deal for me)
2) Hansel and Gretel (this is a Shakuntala stan account)
3) Rupunzel
4) Peter Pan (this temporarily filled my little hopeless romantic heart, and it was much appreciated)
5) Little Mermaid
6) Snow White
7) Cinderella
8) Jack and the Beanstalk
9) Bluebeard 
10) Sleeping Beauty (I’m still kinda confused about what actually happened in this story)
11) Red Riding Hood (my 14 year old Wattpad reading self really came out here, thinking there was going to be some sort of werewolf romance subplot 🙄. Embarrassing.)
12) Rumpelstiltskin