Und doch bleibt Nikita einem Aspekt der Märchen treu, das Happy End spendet Trost, Klarheit und Mut. Even when Gill uses her own voice, she takes that same attitude of both cautionary tale and sage advice. Some of the pieces seemed to be written more meaningfully and executed slightly better than others, so they felt a little out of place. To conclude, if you love reading poetry or books written in verse, you should definitely check this out.

They may want you to believe I was simple being brave, but anxiety makes more heroes than history would care to repeat. Towards the end of the book I began to wonder if the author had run out of fairytales and was simply fuelled by anger. Despite having fallen out of love with poetry years ago, I had such a good feeling about this book when I first picked it up. But mostly the content is on the affirmative, self-help-y side, which I don’t find appealing in my reading. Nikita Gill blends poetry and fairytale stories designed to empower and reimagine the tales we are told as children.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. I have gotten good at distracting myself, calming myself down, or otherwise finding a way to not pass-out or show external signs of any given panic attack I may be having. The author takes on these questions and gives us a much more darker and fierce version of the classics like Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Little Red Riding Hood etc.

The language is great, all the self-love poems are fabulous, and I found so many good nuggets to remember for later.Rapunzel can cut off and climb down her own hair, rather than let a man use any part of her body to climb over. What if I told you, Cinderella's step mother was protecting her and preparing her to face the world? The author’s writing style is very simple and plain but effective at making us understand her thoughts and I really liked that. What I loved about the book is how each character had a story that show them flawed and human, breaking the unrealistic standards.