Fairy Tale Magazine
Review by Kelly Jarvis: Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty by Christine Heppermann
I came across Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty when I was looking for a poetry collection to add to my Young Adult Literature...
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The Fairy Tale Magazine
Nov 22, 20232 min read
Review by Kelly Jarvis: A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid
A Study in Drowning is a novel that explores several dark themes. Effy Sayre is a young woman who has suffered trauma in her life. She is...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Oct 25, 20231 min read
Throwback Thursday: A Wishing Spell by Kelly Jarvis
Timing: The moon need not be waxing. It need not be the second Sunday of Spring, Or quarter-past midnight on the Dark Sabbat, But the...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Oct 5, 20232 min read
Writer, Poet, Professor: Kelly Jarvis' New Website!
Writer, Poet, Professor. These three words hang beneath my name on the new website I recently created to showcase my work, and although...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Sep 12, 20232 min read
Review by Kelly Jarvis: The Shadow Sister
The Shadow Sister is a gripping Young Adult mystery debut from author Lily Meade. It tells the story of two sisters, Casey and Sutton,...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Aug 3, 20235 min read
TBT: 'All the Better to See You With’ Teaching Little Red Riding Hood in College by Kelly Jarvis
Editor’s note: We are fortunate to have Kelly Jarvis as our Special Projects Writer here at EC. She has enormous talent as a fiction...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Aug 1, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Kingdom is a Golden Cage by Lilly Inkwood
Lilly Inkwood’s new novel, The Kingdom is a Golden Cage, is the first book in a fantasy series about the Red, Blue, and Green Kingdoms...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Jul 18, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Briars by Stephanie Parent
Stephanie Parent, the poet behind Every Poem a Potion, Every Song a Spell, has created a fascinating narrative that blends mystery, ghost...
Fairy Tale Magazine
Jul 4, 20232 min read
Book Review: House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig
In House of Roots and Ruin, Erin A. Craig returns readers to the lives of the Thaumas sisters from House of Salt and Sorrow. Verity, the...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Jun 7, 20232 min read
Book Review: Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara
Psyche and Eros is the latest novel-length re-telling of a classic story from Greek mythology. Part myth and part fairy tale, the book...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
May 31, 20232 min read
Book Review: American Mermaid by Julia Langbein
American Mermaid is an interesting novel about a Connecticut high school English teacher, Penelope Schleeman, who has written a...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
May 2, 20232 min read
Book Review: Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood
Lies We Sing to the Sea by Sarah Underwood tells the story of a young oracle named Leto. The novel opens with a reference to the scene...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Apr 26, 20232 min read
Book Review: Her Dark Enchantments by Rosalyn Briar
Her Dark Enchantments tells the story of Myravelle Sinner, the healer of the King’s Sleepy Woods Company, who uses her dark magic to wake...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Apr 11, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Unofficial Princess Bride Cookbook by Cassandra Reeder
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite novels. The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies. So, when I learned there was an...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Apr 4, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Narrow Cage & Other Modern Fairy Tales by Vasily Eroshenko
The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales is a beautiful collection of stories written by a social activist who urges radical...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Mar 15, 20232 min read
Book Review: Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati
Clytemnestra, by Costanza Casati, is a book that aims to overturn your thoughts about Greek heroes by presenting the story of a woman who...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Book Review: The Invisible Hour by Alice Hoffman
Alice Hoffman’s newest book, The Invisible Hour, tells the riveting story of Mia Jacobs, a young woman who has grown up in an isolated...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Mar 1, 20232 min read
Book Review: Velvet Dragonflies by Billy Chapata
The title and description of the poetry collection, Velvet Dragonflies, drew me in, but when I first started reading, I wasn’t sure I...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Feb 15, 20232 min read
Book Review: Fairy Tales Can Change Your Life: Unlock Your Future by Alison Davies
Fairy Tales Can Change Your Life is a book that presents folklore and fairy tales as solutions to life’s problems. Alison Davies explores...
The Fairy Tale Magazine
Dec 14, 20222 min read
Book Review: Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale by Chris Tomasini
I loved Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale, a beautiful novel set in early 1400’s Northern Europe. The story is told by Samuel, the Kingdom of...
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