Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

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To conclude, if you love reading poetry or books written in verse, you should definitely check this out.

The only poems I truly enjoyed were the ones that discussed racism, using beautiful metaphors to do so. Nikita Gill blends poetry and fairytale stories designed to empower and reimagine the tales we are told as children. It was at mention of "people who know how to play with your brokenness like a fidget spinner" that I realized I couldn't keep doing this to myself. We get to see each of the women in these stories in different ways and the reasons for their actions.

Gill needed an editor or publisher that spoke up about how any boy/man that picks up her book is likely to be put off by the end. But also, there’s story-telling from the feisty woman angle which is much needed to present a different take on the tired old cliches. Eine Welt, in welcher Prinzessinnen bestens in der Lage sind, sich selbst zu retten und in welcher die Grenzen von Schurken und Helden verschwimmen. Though the illustrations are gorgeous and there’s a couple of impactful poems/stories in there, I was ultimately unmoved and unimpressed with like, 95% of it.

Despite having fallen out of love with poetry years ago, I had such a good feeling about this book when I first picked it up. He left his children in the woods to fend for themselves and yet he is not the bad one in the story! Some stories and poems fuelled my hope, showing me victims becoming survivors and villains humanised. But I felt like I was constantly getting beaten over the head with The Feminist Stick © Which is an okay stick - don't get me wrong - but it hurt.Her mother told her she could grow up to be anything she wanted to be, so she grew up to become the strongest of the strong, the strangest of the strange, the wildest of the wild, the wolf leading the wolves. The language is great, all the self-love poems are fabulous, and I found so many good nuggets to remember for later. Also, if you're a shipper of Disney Princesses and Princes, you probably won't enjoy some of the darker interpretations the author pursued 😂 Wanted to like it, just didn't enjoy it, unfortunately! I'm disappointed that the overall point and end of Fierce Fairytales was clearly that we women need to take control of everything over our male peers. But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover.

I enjoyed the way Gill kind of climbs into these characters in the stories, whether they are villains or heroes, and enables the reader to see them in a different perspective.

Es verdad que todos son muy breves, con una extensión de una página o dos, pero a pesar de ello, logran plasmar una historia completa, y muchísima emoción. But mostly the content is on the affirmative, self-help-y side, which I don’t find appealing in my reading.

This book explored themes of abuse and self-love, how women as well as men can be toxic, and how it is your own business how you decide to heal- and that healing and becoming yourself again is a form of magic in its own right. I think maybe if I spread them out more and read one at a time it would have been a different experience than just reading the entire collection.If you are a fan of fairytale retellings, especially ones which explore the classics in a more feminist perspective, then this collection is just perfect for you.