A review by more_books_than_days
The Centaur's Wife by Amanda Leduc

5.0

Amanda Leduc takes the dark beauty found in the original Grimm fairytales, and makes it into something new, crafting her own tales that rival those we've grown up with. She brings out the monsters, the weak, the dispossessed, and reveals that they are exactly who and what they should be. She reveals the power of community, of chosen family, and of the stories we tell ourselves. This novel is magical realism meets post-apocalyptic, and for any lover of fairy tale and fantasy, it is a must read. I also highly recommend reading Leduc's work of non-fiction, Disfigured, which reveals many of the foundational ideas, along with her own disability rights activism, that have been formative to this work of fiction.