Author Topic: DO READ THIS!  (Read 438 times)

Offline Random Heroine

  • Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 26
  • Once upon a time...
    • View Profile
Re: DO READ THIS!
« Reply #15 on: June 08, 2018, 12:17:28 pm »
And another rec for you: Jim C Hines' Step Sister Scheme (and its sequels) - they're sort of less re-tellings and more "what happened next", but good fun and feature a lot of very smart women. Warning: the books lean on the original non-disneyfied/sanitised versions of the fairytales, which makes at least one character's backstory (Sleeping Beauty) utterly horrifying.

I did my grad thesis on fairy tales so I know all the dark origins, and as kid I read the original ones that included fun things like cannibalism and dismemberment.  It's so incredibly interesting to me to see the different versions of the same story across different time periods and different cultures.  The Sleeping Beauty story is rough, I believe the Italian version is particularly horrifying.  I adored the Disney film as a kid because of the music and the villain.  I still think Maleficent is the most badass of the bunch.
"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain, of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day." - Charles Dickens