I loved it! Quite applicable to life. Definitely worth reading.

This was SO helpful! I read this as a parallel to my creative writing class and it helped bring a different element to my writing! I'm grateful for the interesting take on writing and all that I gathered from reading this book! It was great!

Even as a child, I loved fairy tales, and I noticed that certain ones appealed to me more than others. As a high school student, I stumbled across a book that put forth the idea that fairy tales were more than just stories, that they met certain psychological needs in our lives, and that we could see into ourselves based on which fairy tales appealed most to us. I spent the next several years analyzing myself, as any rank amateur psychologist would do.

This book appealed to me because it offered a twist on that idea from so many years ago: Not only do fairy tales mean something, they offer you the chance to script your own story and change your own endings. I found it refreshing to read a book that reinforced the idea that one is personally responsible for how the story ends, regardless of what happens. I like that this book gives the reader tangible tools and various exercises for thinking about self, events, and desired outcomes: character analysis, themes, symbols, and storyboarding. I didn’t fully buy the using crystals and appropriating universal light energy, though. I come from a different spiritual background and substituted my preferred spiritual references instead.

Overall, I liked this book. It was creative and hopeful.

I received this book for free as an eARC from the author, publisher, and NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased review.