Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

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Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

Creeping Beauty: Fairy Tales Gone Bad

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While Bitsy makes a few offhand comments about maybe making changes when she becomes queen, there’s no real fire behind her words.

Creeping Beauty caught my eye as it was described as a subversive and feminist take on Sleeping Beauty. 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. His plays have received special note from Soho's Verity Bargate Award and The Bruntwood Playwriting Competition and he has spent many years touring and performing his work.Bitsy, our “sleeping beauty”, is constantly referred to as plain or even unattractive in comparison to everyone in the kingdom. 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. I thought there was a lot of filler in this book that was not necessary at all, I found myself having to go back to reread paragraphs or even sometimes a few pages because I would get lost. Eshe is the thirteenth magical sister in the kingdom of Mythica, but her magical gift is more of a curse.

In this way, with a nod to The Frog Prince along the way, Joseph Coelho brings the agency of women to the fore as he recasts this classic tale.Bitsy as a main protagonist was fine but I didn’t particularly connect with her and I didn’t feel like the romance worked at all. A retelling of Sleeping Beauty crossed with Alice in Wonderland, this book promises a world-hopping adventure with a unique twist.

This prickly tale has wicked rumours, dark magic, and, at the heart of it all, a cursed princess covered in dangerous, deadly vines… And yes, I’m afraid, wretched readers, that there is a spot of blood! I love their back and forth and really think they are the only ones who can appreciate each other the most and treat each other at their worst. Of course, Eshe’s warning is not heeded and the christening goes ahead with the fairy godmothers (thirteen, rather than seven) offering their gifts to the child.It started off unassuming and then became a bit bizarre once Bitsy pricked her finger and entered a foreign land. In the third and final book in this trilogy of twisted classics, Eshe and her twelve sisters are Fairy Godmothers but Eshe’s gift is different – she can glimpse the future. I did like the unique style but admit a few times I had to remind myself this was meant to be a sort of dream/alternate world. She illustrated Dark Lord: The Teenage Years by Jamie Thomson which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and she won the Lemniscaat Illustration Award for her first standalone picture book, Little Kong.

I didn't feel like it truly went anywhere and at the same time had so many plot lines drawn into it, it was hard to understand why they were even there.The protagonist of the story Bitsy (Elizabeth,) is portrayed as a very innocent and childish character, cocooned within a world controlled by her parents, who display worryingly fixed and misogynistic views, that from their perspective determine Bitsy’s life, including marrying her off before she reaches the age of 18. Creeping Beauty is a wonderful creepy, gripping twisted fairy tale […] Written in verse this book is funny, dark and you just won’t want to put it down.



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