To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The author’s writing style is very simple and plain but effective at making us understand her thoughts and I really liked that.

Even if this turns out to be my token poetry book for the year, I’m so glad to have made the choice.

Were it not for the last quarter of the book this would probably get a four star rating from me; but I struggle to even give it three stars given how much I disliked the last few passages. Complete with beautifully hand-drawn illustrations by Gill herself, Fierce Fairytales is an empowering collection of poems and stories for a new generation. And perhaps needed to hear, in advance of publication, that many women don't take kindly to generic bashing of males. She also manages to tackle many important topics and themes in such few words that I thought it was masterful. I thought this would be the perfect poetry collection for me but Gill’s interpretations of fairytales/folklore and creative choices as a whole didn’t connect with me at all.

Un kāpēc gan šajā laikā nepalutināt sevi ar kādu īsu stāstiņu vai dzejolīti, kad tik grūti smadzenēm likt pievērsties kādam tekstam. Bringing the old into the new, this modernised take is sure to captivate lovers of these timeless tales. You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own. Gill needed an editor or publisher that spoke up about how any boy/man that picks up her book is likely to be put off by the end. The language is great, all the self-love poems are fabulous, and I found so many good nuggets to remember for later.

In these short stories and poems you’ll find well known fairytales with insights into characters, backstories and different endings. Reimagining traditional tales, this empowering collection of stories, poems and beautiful hand-drawn illustrations gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover.

What we need to teach them is how to stand up for themselves and speak out against those that are treating women (or others) inappropriately. But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. They read less like important mantras to tie together the collection and more like Gill couldn’t find different ways to say the same thing.Magical and creative and enthralling, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul is fairytales for feminists. What if I told you, the prince in the story of snow white had escaped from the shackles of his palace, to find solace in the forest ?