Black Pearls: A Faerie Strand - Louise Hawes

This is a retelling of six well known fairy tales and one legend, but from a different point of view to the original stories, telling the author's imaginings of what really happened in each case, and in doing so eschewing the formula of "happily ever after". Full of magic, sadness and intrigue, though not really "dark" as the sleeve notes would have you believe, unless you really are a child and choose this for your bedtime reading, not really knowing what you've let yourself in for. There's the story of Rapunzel, she of the long hair locked up in a tower by her mother who's a witch. But the story is told from the point of view of her ...  Read the complete review