Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

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I kind of just started skimming when there were horrible blanket statements about men and shameful undertones towards women who would want a “traditional” lifestyle. Nikita Gill blends poetry and fairytale stories designed to empower and reimagine the tales we are told as children. What if I told you, Cinderella's step mother was protecting her and preparing her to face the world?

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Along with the writing are illustrations done by the author that accompanies each piece which was gorgeous. Rapunzel can cut off and climb down her own hair, rather than let a man use any part of her body to climb over.Right from that captivating cover, this book has had my attention and when I finally had the opportunity to participate in Read-India-Thon this week, I decided it was finally time to read it. They replied solely on their superficial and surface level understanding and literary history of these characters, probably collated from Disney films or other mass-made reception material, and then wrote them into a painfully repetitive aggressive girl power, misandristic narrative because that’s what feminism is, right? In these short stories and poems you’ll find well known fairytales with insights into characters, backstories and different endings. I think there is probably something here for everyone; but unfortunately you have to navigate a lot of obnoxious, in your face rhetoric to find it. Even when Gill uses her own voice, she takes that same attitude of both cautionary tale and sage advice.

What if I told you, naive little mermaid who gave her voice and fins away in exchange for a chance at a man's love, realized losing her voice under any compulsion or reason is not an option anymore? To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I hardly ever read poetry, but sometimes some books just seem so interesting that they don’t leave you until you pick them up. It was wonderful to read this beautiful and creative writing, as they are a different angle on my favourite stories from childhood.And perhaps needed to hear, in advance of publication, that many women don't take kindly to generic bashing of males. Und doch bleibt Nikita einem Aspekt der Märchen treu, das Happy End spendet Trost, Klarheit und Mut.