Beasts & Beauty: Dangerous Tales - Soman Chianani

Fantasy Fiction

Rating: 8/10

You think you know the stories, but perhaps you don’t know them at all. Prepare to rethink all those happily ever afters. To have the lines blurred between beastly natures and beautiful visages. And even have some characters show up where they don’t belong.

This collection offers up retellings that challenge the accepted tropes and explore intriguing angles, sure to leave the reader as charmed as they are bewitched. It also has stunning artwork throughout, which the cover merely gives you a taste of.

You will simultaneously want to savor and devour these tales. My advice, try to do both!

Here are some paths the author may take you on. Or maybe not…

What If…

Red Riding Hood knew what was coming? And she tricked the wolf?

Snow White…wasn’t? And Prince Charming…wasn’t?

Sleeping Beauty was a boy? One with a taste for blood?

Hansel & Gretel had an evil stepmother? And the witch in the house made of sweets helped them lure her in?

Beauty was the beast instead?

Book Pairing(s): The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Merry Spinster by Mallory Daniel Orberg, My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me by Kate Bernheimer