2023 PopSugar Challenge: a modern retelling of a classic

Gender Swapped Fairy Tales by Karrie Fransman

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


The cover art caught my attention in the bookstore. The title piqued my interest so I took the plunge and bought it.

The concept is simple, swap genders of many well known fairy tales. I saw so much potential with this idea. Sadly this did not live up to expectations.

There are great ways that this could have worked but all the authors did was changed the gender of ALL beings in the story. I found myself totally turned off by the GANDER that laid the golden egg. And I don't know why it bothered me that they kept descriptors as "he was so beautiful" and "she was the most handsome". I realize, intrinsically that the words could be used for all genders but here it just put me off. This may be something that I need to work on with myself, but at this moment it turned me off the book.

I made myself finish the book, but I admit it was close to a DNF.



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