Kissing the Witch is a fabulous collection of short stories that are all reimaginings of the classic fairytales we all know and love. From Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, as well as The Goose Girl and Rumpelstiltskin, Emma Donoghue frames the women of the story in a brave new light and
finally makes them the heroines of their own tale.

I loved the style of this collection and how each story led into the other - for example, at the end of Cinderella, she turned to her fairy godmother and asked her story, and that's how we led into the second tale and the next and the next. Each character was connected in some way and it was so beautifully and masterfully woven.

These tales are not all sweetness and light because women are not the gentle, frightful creatures that some fairytales try and betray us as. Some of the the characters were conniving and got ahead by tricking and manipulating others, some made their bed and then realised they didn't want to lie in it. All parts of being real and human. There were little to none male characters, or a least none that made big impacts top the story, which I loved. All the power in these stories was with the characters themselves, and they wove their tales the way they wanted to.