Guys. I can’t with this book. It may have actually given me an existential crisis. I don’t even know how to unpack this, or if I should. I’m a practicing Catholic Democrat, so I guess I was bound to have some feelings about this book, since it’s from a “Catholic perspective.” I… just… wow. This lovely book is a “modern retelling” of Rapunzel. An upstanding yet mischievous young Catholic lad scales a tower and finds a young girl. I’m going to spoil a couple things […]
Preachy Fairy Tale
Shadow of the Bear is a ‘retelling’ of the Grim Fairy Tale Snow White and Rose Red, the one where they have a bear suitor. You have to specify because there are a couple of Snow White/Rose Red fairy tales and I remember being confused about that when I was younger. I put retelling in quotes because the only real changes to the fairy tale is that it’s set in the modern era and all characters are human, otherwise nothing really changes. It’s this lack […]