A review by 831bookworm
Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani

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

3.0

  1. Peter Pan - pan is selfish and loses interest in Wendy. Who falls in love with a pirate with heart of gold. She continues to grow up and live a double life. And then she gives birth and the he pirate comes back to bring them to neverland. She doesn’t have any magic left and the fairy dust is no longer working on her. He takes the baby and raises it in neverland. 
  2. The little mermaid - basically the witch, unnamed, Ursula, and the mermaid, Ariel, talk it out, and Ursula convinces her that she doesn’t really know what she’s asking for and is making you stupid mistakes to want legs for the prince. 
  3. Cinderella - follows the regular plot line except Cinderella is not the princess true love it is a girl named Magdalena. And really the friendship love between Magdalena and Cinderella is the one that endures. There is a funny moment where the prince behold, both of them, and for a short moment, they are a happy threesome, except Magdalena and Cinderella like each other more than the prince.
  4. Bluebeard - instead of wives, blue beard likes to take little boys. The greatest game mission for the master, and a clever boy, who harnesses the power of his fallen brothers, to outsmart the evil master.
  5. Beauty and the beast - be careful to look and not see [your love]. You might end up stabbing him while looking for him. 
  6. Hansel and gretel - it’s a moral story for the mothers who don’t love and take care of their children. And a sad remembrance tie in for husbands who let their wife go, to save their argument. 
  7. Jack and the beanstalk - he lives with a miserable mother and it follows the trope except the boy wanted his father and got that and love as his final winning. Followed the storyline otherwise. 
  8. Red riding hood - wolf is wolves and a beautiful maiden is given in tribute but red changes that and rescues the girls after her in a wolfy clan of her own 
  9. Snow White - she’s black and has a baby and doesn’t complete the orphaned daughter prey for evil stepmother cycle 
  10. Sleeping beauty - she’s a he and he’s gay for a rose spirit(?) and they end up happily ever after (killing the evil wife to the he) 
  11. Rapunzel - the witch is an old man gardener who smothers the rabbit. Rapunzel is a viney plant and she doesn’t want to leave with the prince, just want kisses
  12. Rumplestiltskin is basically the same story, but with the statement that there is no man to rescue her like in fairytales, if she is to beat the devil, she must be her own prince