This powerful, empowering, fierce book, reimagines our favourite fairytales; often from the feminist perspective of the ‘villain. It is not like other books I've read about empowerment, only because it does not contradict itself in the process. I kind of just started skimming when there were horrible blanket statements about men and shameful undertones towards women who would want a “traditional” lifestyle.

What if I told you, the step sisters struggled with insecurities, body image issues and were trying to keep up with societal standards of perfection and that jealousy is not a inherent trait? I know it might sound a bit deranged, but I would make sure that I would read some of the poems and stories in this book to my children to make them understand that stories, even though beautiful and magical, can be told in so many different ways. 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. Maybe the old woman in Hansel and Gretel was misaligned and wasn't the one who tried to eat the children but instead rescued them when their father abandoned them.I have gotten good at distracting myself, calming myself down, or otherwise finding a way to not pass-out or show external signs of any given panic attack I may be having.

Some of the pieces seemed to be written more meaningfully and executed slightly better than others, so they felt a little out of place.He left his children in the woods to fend for themselves and yet he is not the bad one in the story! I especially loved the way she talked about learning to love and believe in ourselves, to standup for our convictions, how we are complete by ourselves and don’t need a man to save us, and how we should be in solidarity with other women instead of viewing them as competition. Remind each and every girl out there that youth and beauty are not her shackles, nor her only currency. Before I even talk about the content in this book, I just want to express just how much I love the cover.