Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Piękno i bestie. Niebezpieczne baśnie by Soman Chainani

3 reviews

katsbookedout's review against another edition

adventurous funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

3.5

My biggest pet peeve with this book is that it doesn’t use quotation marks. Why not??
Anyways, I enjoyed the spin on classic fairytales it, it was interesting and fun to read. Also I love how culturally diverse the characters were! I did a little cheer each time they weren’t defaulted to being white. Plus the ways that aspects of their backgrounds were integrated into the story really added to the reading experience for me.

Here’s my ranking of the short stories:
1) Beauty and the Beast (the “is he rich?” line really sealed the deal for me)
2) Hansel and Gretel (this is a Shakuntala stan account)
3) Rupunzel
4) Peter Pan (this temporarily filled my little hopeless romantic heart, and it was much appreciated)
5) Little Mermaid
6) Snow White
7) Cinderella
8) Jack and the Beanstalk
9) Bluebeard 
10) Sleeping Beauty (I’m still kinda confused about what actually happened in this story)
11) Red Riding Hood (my 14 year old Wattpad reading self really came out here, thinking there was going to be some sort of werewolf romance subplot 🙄. Embarrassing.)
12) Rumpelstiltskin

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism and Misogyny

Moderate: Racism, Abandonment, Toxic relationship, and Murder

Minor: Infidelity, Death of parent, Animal death, and Child death

sarahaf712's review against another edition

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Animal death, Child death, Classism, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Grief, Sexual assault, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Body horror, Child abuse, Gaslighting, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Excrement, Violence, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Body shaming, Bullying, Infertility, Stalking, Death of parent, and Fatphobia

c_ab_bage's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

some of my favorite fairytale retellings i’ve ever read, really loved the modernization of the lessons being taught while keeping the same
classical fairytale storytelling :)

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Content Warnings

Minor: Abandonment, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent, Death, Emotional abuse, Grief, Homophobia, Infertility, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Toxic relationship, and Violence