![]() ![]() PG-13: Risky Reads Reading 'Dune,' My Junior-High Survival Guide But now that the author of Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom has turned her hand to re-purposing some of our most familiar fairy tales as the foundational documents of childhood in her "Grishaverse" (that world in which her best stories all take place), what we have are a handful of gorgeous, cruel and almost wistful windows onto the dreamscapes and hard lessons of her alternate universe. The good ones understand that scars are the best teachers.Īnd Leigh Bardugo gets that. But the good ones don't end before there's blood on the knife. The bad ones sing Careful what you wish for and Sometimes pretty isn't as important as smart with choruses of cute mice and bluebirds. They coddle and muffle and take all the sharp, dangerous edges off of the dirty business of learning important lessons in a world that's rarely as nice as we want it to be. They are candy apples with razorblades inside kisses touched with poison. Good fairy tales balance sweetness and nightmares. The hardest, sharpest, most attractive magic of fairy tales is their power to make you both want to live inside them - and be glad you never have to. ![]() ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Language of Thorns Subtitle Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic Author Leigh Bardugo and Sara Kipin ![]()
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