I'm disappointed that the overall point and end of Fierce Fairytales was clearly that we women need to take control of everything over our male peers.

I thought this would be the perfect poetry collection for me but Gill’s interpretations of fairytales/folklore and creative choices as a whole didn’t connect with me at all. I would have cherished it as a child just for how pretty it is; even if I didn't like all the stories. I’m 100% in favor of encouraging young women, but her advice became repetitive and ponderous by the twentieth tale. I especially loved the way she talked about learning to love and believe in ourselves, to standup for our convictions, how we are complete by ourselves and don’t need a man to save us, and how we should be in solidarity with other women instead of viewing them as competition.But in this rousing new prose and poetry collection, Nikita Gill gives Once Upon a Time a much-needed modern makeover. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

This is filled with poetic retellings and short stories of fairy tales, as well as a few original tales. You will meet fearless princesses, a new kind of wolf lurking in the concrete jungle, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own. Gill gives us some wonderful quotes and moments in Fierce Fairytales throughout her (very) short stories and poem snippets.

Imagine fairytales where the line between heroes and villains are blurred, where there is violence in supposed Prince Charming’s, and where the girl is independent, brave and smart- and can fight her own battles against monsters. I felt way too uncomfortable reading the cheesy poems and the predictability of it all, sometimes I feel like it tries so hard to be an aesthetic self-help book Hahhahaahahh. It was an absolute joy to read them and I'm excited to see that the author Nikita Gill has other collections of poetry. And now she knew how important it is for a woman to be beautiful, as it is the only currency she truly had in this world, she became even more bitter.