Thank you to the Incomparable book recommendations for this series - I had vaguely noticed it going by and then it came up in the Hugos reading and I thought "oh, I should read this as a break from the 18 hour audiobook I was enjoying but not entirely in the brainspace for".

And I was right. It's very clever and does a lot with the novella length and I am very glad it did not try to be a full length novel. It's an excellent fairy tale and an excellent story for those of us who really appreciate fairy tales.