A review by keegan_rellim_taylor
Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani

3.0

This topsy turvy modern day fairy tale collection followed after I recently read a poem that seemed to fit it on Facebook by @srwpoetry. It goes like this:

sometimes the hero stumbles
and falls right off the page.
sometimes the princess rolls her eyes
and says, "i don't want to be saved."
sometimes the dragon needs rescuing
and the vision aches to be helped.
sometimes in the darkness,
the list boy finds himself.
sometimes the princess is cunning
and not at all what he seemed.
sometimes the witch's kindness
shows it's she who deserves to be queen.
sometimes we shouldn't define people
by someone else's point of view --
just because it's what we've been told
doesn't make our t r u e.