Snow White Learns Witchcraft

This is such a wonderful collection of stories and poetry on what's a dangerously tired subject - retelling of fairy tales. Many stories here seem to take place where the normal world casually overlaps the magical fairy tale world; characters travel between them, if not live in spaces where the workings of both worlds co-exist.

While the fairy tale inspirations are fairly obvious. Theodora Goss often approach it from a different perspective, and very often, it is about girls and women taking charge of their own story instead of waiting for rescue. Some of my favourites include Snow White Learns Witchcraft, Blanchefleur, Seven Shoes, The Other Thea, A Country Called Winter, and Conversations with the Sea Witch.

Not sure what's up with all the women marrying bears though.

ARC courtesy of NetGalley.