THE WICKED STEPBROTHER & OTHER STORIES BY WARREN ROCHELLE : BOOK REVIEW

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Fairy tales. Prince Charming fights evil, wins the princess, lives happily ever after. Three sons, three wishes, witches, dragons, a quest, and happily ever after.


These stories are part of our cultural fabric. The stories change in retellings to reflect contemporary culture, such as Princess Charming, or heroes and heroines as people of color. In this collection, queer characters take center stage in stories that grew out of questions:


What if the prince falls in love with Cinderella's gay stepbrother? What if Rumpelstiltskin doesn't really want the Queen's child but rather the King himself? What if Beauty and the Beast are two men?


These stories explore metaphors of magic and the magical, this time, with a gay perspective. What price must be paid for happily ever after? Duty or love? Is love worth great sacrifice? Once upon a time .

REVIEW 


I absolutely adored this brilliant collection of diverse fairytale retellings put together.

These retellings are dark, realistic and Contemporary.


Each tale has an happily ever after but not before putting the MC's through the wringer and letting them face the harsh realities of life.


I loved that this was LGBT themed and we get to see some good representation here as well.

If you love retellings of the classic but with a twist and some angst, you will love this.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Warren Rochelle, Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Mary Washington, lives in Charlottesville Virginia.. His short fiction and poetry are published in such journals as Aboriginal Science Fiction, Forbidden Lines, Crucible, The Charlotte Poetry Review, the Asheville Poetry Review, the North Carolina Literary Review, Romance and Beyond, and Icarus. A critical book, Communities of the Heart: the Rhetoric of Myth in the Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin, was published by Liverpool University Press in early 2001. 


Golden Gryphon Press published his first novel, The Wild Boy, in the fall of 2001, and his second novel, Harvest of Changelings, in 2007. His third novel, The Called, also published by Golden Gryphon, was published in July 2010.


The Werewolf and His Boy, his fourth novel, was published by Samhain Publishing in September 2016. It will be re-released by JMS Books in August 2020. 


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