![]() ![]() The happiest and most pure of all the stories. Glass, a retelling of Cinderella where she's a storyteller and her step-sisters try beat down her confidence to shut her up. I particularly enjoyed the below fairytales: The happy endings rarely involve romance, they're more likely to involve coping mechanisms, friendships, lessons to teach, and an overall sentiment of "get going kid, you're not dead yet."Īs an adult reader who never experienced anything close to a fairytale as a teen, these darker fairy tales lit me up. These are for and about girls who experienced rape, inappropriate relationships, and romances touched by darkness. It's almost funny that these are called fairy tales, because in reality they're stories for girls who didn't get to have that sort of fairy tale romance or sexual experience when they were in their teens. This collection feels like an adult's feminist commentary on what it means to grow up as a girl and I imagine it's really hard to appreciate this direct of a commentary when you're in the thick of growing up. Block is marketed as a YA author, but I question the suitability of this book for teens. My fourth Block book and another one I absolutely love. ![]()
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