Grimm and Dread

I received this book free from Quill and Crow publishing for an honest review. 

This book is a collection of fairy tales and though the original tales are often more dreadful than they're told by Disney, this book seeks to make them even more gruesome. Each retelling with its own twist.

The stories included are:

-What the Earth Bore: A Sleeping Beauty retelling by Mary Rajotte

-Black as Snow: A Snow-White retelling by Zeena Mubarak

-Where Shadows Fall: A Rapunzel retelling by Stephen Black

-The Devils Deal: A Bearskin retelling by Ryan Brinson

-Become a Flute, Become a Spy Glass, Become a Knife: a retelling of The Singing Bone by Elou Carroll

-Godmother Death: a retelling of Grandfather Death by Adam M. Faderewski

-That Which You Have Promised: a Frog Prince retelling by Sabrina Howard

-The Three Wounds: a retelling of the Three Snakes Leaves by Beatrice Hadwin

-A Tainted Rose: a retelling of The Seven Ravens by Brad Acevedo

-What's in a Name: a retelling of Rumpelstiltskin by J.S. Larmore

-The Wind So Mild: a retelling of Hansel and Gretel by Victoria Audley

-The Crow Princess: a retelling of Cinderella by Lucas Mann

All in all, I really enjoyed this retelling of so many of the fairy tales I am familiar with. There were some I had never heard of and that has prompted me to read the originals. There was a little more feminism than I prefer in my stories but that's just a personal preference. If you enjoy fairy tale type stories with a darker theme then this is the book for you. This book will be available December 10, 2021.