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A review by kellypaladin
Cinder the Fireplace Boy and other Gayly Grimm Tales by Ana Mardoll
5.0
I loved this book. Ana Mardoll did an amazing job of picking a mix of well-known Grimm's fairy tales (Cinderella, The Brave Little Tailor, Tom Thumb, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding-Hood, Rapunzel) and more obscure ones and rewriting them to appeal to a modern audience. Xie recreated the feel of reading an old book of fairy tales, and there were multiple times where I went "Wait, was that a change or was that in the originals?"
There's something deeply satisfying for me about stories about LGBTQ people where the person's gender or sexuality isn't the story, but just one important detail among many that make up a character. Disability is treated the same way, not as a driver for the whole story but matter-of-factly, as one aspect of a character.
Highly recommended, and I hope to see more fairy tale collections in this vein.
There's something deeply satisfying for me about stories about LGBTQ people where the person's gender or sexuality isn't the story, but just one important detail among many that make up a character. Disability is treated the same way, not as a driver for the whole story but matter-of-factly, as one aspect of a character.
Highly recommended, and I hope to see more fairy tale collections in this vein.