A review by joannaautumn
Among the Thorns by Veronica Schanoes

4.0

"They made my father dance in thorns before they killed him.
I used to think that this was a metaphor, that they beat him with thorny vines, perhaps. But I was wrong about that.
They made him dance."

This is in the Top 10 interesting opening lines of a story that I have ever read.

Being a sort of sequel to the antisemitic fairytale by The Brothers Grimm, I read their original fairytale" A Jew among thorns". The fairytale made zero sense, and the hatred towards Jews is apparent. I don't understand how a person can write something so hateful targeted to children. There were many ways to end that fairytale and not get the tragic ending for anybody but it seems like The Brothers Grimm hadn't thought about that, or they have but chose this ending instead. Either way a shitty fairytale.

Anyway, I was completely satisfied with this fairytale.

-Strong heroine ✔
-Good character build/psychology ✔
-Revenge story ✔
-Taking a look at all sides of morality and what moral means to an individual ✔
-Carrying a strong and positive message ✔
-A perfect ending, if I have ever heard of one ✔

These points along with beautiful but simplistic writing made this fairytale very dear to me. If you are up for all of the abovementioned, check it out.
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This was so good and empowering. Give me more fairytales like this one. Review to come.