Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

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Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad By Joseph Coelho Illustrated by Freya Hartas A subversive, funny – and deliciously prickly!

It is not included in promotions available to our main range products, as stated in our terms of service. Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.The story has mysticism, magic, unkindness but also love, estranged families, mistrust and also hope. Yet despite having the opportunity---if not the necessity---to become a better person, she never developed beyond a stereotype. The plot of Sleeping Beauty being transported to an alternate world upon pricking her finger on the spindle should've been good, it's one of those "active" retellings of the tale that usually works wonderfully, but the writing in first person POV that breaks the fourth wall (Princess Bitsy talks to the reader like some sort of wannabe Jane Eyre) is grating, infantile, and ultimately doesn't match the plot contents, which are for an older audience. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. She goes from being a naïve, helpless girl to a clever and strong warrior in the span of a few pages.

To be stuck only seeing everyone as she did meant I never had the opportunity to form opinions of them on my own. She has thoroughly enjoyed interpreting Dirk's absurd escapades with elaborate landscapes of the Darklands, classrooms of goblin school children and evil Headmasters. The dark and deadly world of Heartless meets the empowering twist of Cruel Beauty in this thrilling, unpredictable, multigenre retelling of one of the most beloved fairy tales: where instead of falling asleep to await her prince, this sleeping beauty finally wakes up.

The story didn’t really come to a satisfying conclusion and I was expecting something more to happen before the story came to an end.

Her father’s journal entries definitely served a purpose, but they also stagnated the flow anytime they showed up. Massive thank you to Harper 360 for sending me this arc via Netgalley, as always I'm immensely grateful for including me in your mailing lists. A retelling of Sleeping Beauty crossed with Alice in Wonderland, this book promises a world-hopping adventure with a unique twist. Without serious push from other stronger female characters, she likely wouldn’t have even attempted to become a leader or to save the people from countless injustices.As mentioned Bitsy and Peregrine were both well written and they both had well-developed arcs throughout the book. The problem here is that a badly built world with nonexistent threats hasn't given any real weight to its supposed change, making it back to the way it was - as deep as a puddle. Following on from Zombierella and Frankenstiltskin, this is the third and final book in a deliciously dark trilogy of twisted classics, written in verse by award-winning poet Joseph Coelho and illustrated by Freya Hartas.