The best fairy tale books 📚

Dark and delicious. Two of the most apt words to describe this thrilling story. I adore the world Melissa created and the equally dark and delicious fae who populate it. There's a certain poetry between the characters, and I love how Aislinn learns to face her greatest fears, a skill that will serve anyone well when venturing into the dark and dangerous realm of the Fae. You'll be hooked into this story in no time because it grabs your interest from the very first page, a must for me to get invested in any story because I confess, I’m a… show more.

It celebrates everlasting love! And love is a truly revolutionary act because it is de rigeur to disbelieve in it. Goldman is just the best because he enjoys the pain as much as the pleasure, the evil as much as the good, the clever as much as the daft… and the characters he draws – with Buttercup and Westley as leading lovers – are every bit as delicious as anything from Roald Dahl. It’s proper romantic and absolutely rightly so. I read this out loud cover-to-cover with my girlfriend and then both my kids. To be fair, she was gone… show more.

It seems to me that the kind of imaginative senseless play (beyond good/bad, right/wrong), feels similar to the way a small kid would tell stories. A wonderful fantastic tale with joyful illustrations. Plus children and adults find very, very, very big things fascinating. Enjoy this masterpiece! (As well as Taro Miura’s other books.)

Beneath the surface of this beautifully written old-style fairytale there lies a compelling examination of free will. This thematic depth adds a delicious, chewy meat to what is already an enjoyable romantic read. I loved the characters here. Jenny’s repeated struggle to overcome the fairytale roles that are imposed upon her, and the properly dark consequences of failure in the fairy realm, make this an excellent YA romance adventure that's hard to forget.