Bibliographic information
Series: Grimmer Fairy Tales(Book 2)Author: Lee Hayton
Publisher: Independently Published(April 14, 2017)
ISBN: 1521066426, 978-1521066423
Length:112 pages
Review:
"My tale to you has been littered with shattered and battered corpses of everyone I've ever loved."
Sometimes I like to go through some fictions that will give me a bit of relax and my brain a pitter patter of rushing imaginative flight. I enjoy this feelings a lot. That's why I really like fairy tale even now. But Cinderella's Not - So - Ugly Stepsister from Grimmer Fairy Tales by Lee Hatton is not the fairy tell we know from the childhood relating the love between Prince Charles and Cinderella, who in spite of the torture of her stepmother band stepsisters became the most beautiful lady to win Charles's heart. It is not the conventional fairy tale where "brave heroines arise from the shadows to marry a devastating handsome prince.” It is a retelling of Cinderella's tale in most vicious way spitting on the patriarchal frame of the society, "...my image tugged like a fish hook at his brain...It was not his brain the fish hook tugged at. It was his groin." The deep cynicism against the royal practices makes her draw the most horrible picture of the palace, where the prince's life is smuggled in rotten and vicious profligacy and cruelty. The king and queen a mere puppet at his hand. Cindrella like her two sisters is just a victim of his lust and torture. That's why Cindrella's stepsister which eyes are taken by Charles's trained - hawk, killed her just born male baby, who was also the son of Charles, to stop the transmission of same brutal blood to the next generation. And losing her mother, vulgar and savage stepfather, lover, and beloved sister she even in the worst condition of her life plans for retribution. Her love and affection for poor Cindy makes her determine to free her from the tyranny of Charles. And in that process she does not care even to add "one more body to the burgeoning pile.”
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Book review:
“Dear reader, my tale to you has been littered with the shattered and battered corpses of everyone I’ve ever loved. In the darkness, my heart beating with excitement and trepidation, I’ll gladly add one more body to the burgeoning pile. As to whether that’s my own corpse or the Prince’s? At this stage of my life, I don’t really think I care.” The ending leaves us in an unsatiated curious way to know what she did next. But there is no way except letting our imagination to gap the void, to retell the untold story in our own way.
The fiction is written from the misandristic point of narrating the well known fairytale molded in gothic ferocity that adds the extra feather in its thrill.
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Regards,
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