![]() ![]() One of my favorites is Death and the Woodwife, in which the main character outwits Death himself. Some of Albert’s characters thirst for revenge, others desire justice, all are smart and resourceful and actual people rather than archetypes. I especially enjoyed this, having read my fill of fairy tales where women either have no agency and exist only to be examples of purity, or are villainized as stepmothers and witches. Albert takes the format of fairy tales and uses well-known tropes of the genre to infuse her stories with morality and magic.Īlbert’s stories are full of well-defined, complicated main characters, all of whom are female. Tales from the Hinterland largely captures and keeps the original tone of The Door That Wasn’t There, expanding on Albert’s gifts for writing stories that feel like better, more interesting, and more feminist versions of Brother’s Grimm tales. ![]() It was one of my favorite parts of the book because of its enchanting fantasy prose and its dark, twisted ending. I decided to read this book because of The Door That Wasn’t There, a short story in The Hazel Wood. Tales from the Hinterland is a novel based on Melissa Albert’s first book, The Hazel Wood. ![]()
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