Tangleweed and Brine is a fascinating retelling of the childhood fairytales we all know and love, in which the female characters are stronger, darker and more complex than ever before.

I really enjoyed the majority of the stories and how the characters got a different kind of voice than I’ve seen previously. Each character is dealing with issues that that many other women can relate with (mostly).

I loved the twist on a lot of these fairy tales - the way Rapunzel looked at her mother’s reasons for giving her to the witch, and in Hansel and Gretel we saw the story of the ‘witch’ in the gingerbread house.

My favourites were probably Snow White for the really twisted, dark road that one took and a type of Snow White I’ve never seen before. The Frog Prince story was also wonderful and I would genuinely love a whole book set in the world.

I loved that the Bluebeard story was pretty much the only one that seemed to be an actual love story. I also liked Fair, Brown and Trembling mostly because I didn’t know much about the fairy tale at all so it was going into a brand new story altogether.