The Radish

Aya Surheyao  “Her power slit their throats, flung them back against the wall, dove inside their screaming mouths, and burned them from the inside out… And then, Rielle looked down at herself and saw that again… her hands, her boots, her skirts were drenched in fresh blood. (Legrand 384)”       Dark, heart-wrenching, and action-packed, Kingsbane makes for a great fantasy read. It is the second book in the Empirium trilogy, written by Claire Legrand. In the world of Avitas, an ancient war between humans and angels ends with the angels tricked into inhabiting The Deep, a realm where their bodies are stripped from their consciousnesses. Now they seek escape … and revenge. This book straddles two timelines, with one set farther in the past where Rielle struggles to believe that she is the Sun Queen and not the Blood Queen, meant to doom humanity. One can infer from the passage above which one she turns out to be. The second queen is Eliana and her story takes place ...

     If you could not tell from the terrible pun in the title this blog is going to be about the Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tale . It is a collection of the fairy tales we all know and love written by the brother Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. These fairy tales were written back when caring about children's mental health and not murdering people in children's books was not something many people cared about. These were stories meant to instill messages in kids' minds, one way or another. As you can probably tell these made the fairy tales I read in this book rather grim, I'm sorry that's the last pun. Another thing to note is the fact that the brothers did not make up most of these stories, someone else did. The brothers made a collection of tales they got from other people, which they then did some edits to. So with that all established, let's get into one of the weirdest stories I've read.     The first story I want to discuss is The Gallant Tailor  which was publ...