I wasn’t actually planning on responding to my previous criticism of books that “rewrite” fairy tales, myths, and legends with a TWIST as boring and banal too much of the time with a review of a book that did it well, but here we are. IF you’re going to rewrite a myth, don’t simply tell the story again, but inscribe that myth onto a new set of contexts and characters to show continuity of the ideas and narrative, not simply put your own spin on […]