Tangleweed and Brine
By Deirdre Sullivan
Blurb:
Tangled tales of earth, salty tales of water
Bewitched retellings of thirteen classic fairy-tales with brave and resilient heroines. Tales of blood and intrigue, betrayal and enchantment from a leading Irish YA author.
With 13 stunning black and white illustrations by new Irish illustrator Karen Vaughan.
This book is a lot of short stories all within one book, they are all fairy-tale retellings but on the dark side.
The story lengths are really nice, they are just like long chapters to be honest. They flow together quite nicely and you don't feel like that they merge into one. The characters within each of the stories have their part to the story and it's nice to have a darker twist on not so famous fairy-tales.
The writing style of the book is just perfect, it just flows so easily. The first few stories I thought were extremely fast paced because they seemed to read like a poem. This was quite unusual and I wasn't expecting it but I loved it at the same time.
On the other stories they were wrote like proper stories, but they were still fast paced. There wasn't one story within this book that I disliked. There is also a meaning to each of the fairy-tales to real life too which is what I like about fairy-tales.
I'd definitely recommend reading this book if you like twisted fairy-tales, fast paced and just enticing characters.
Read: 22/07/19 - 23/07/19
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