Kissing The Witch: April Campagna

My favorite story has to be The Tale of the Rose. There was just something about it that really kept me interested the whole time. I like how the author shows how money effects how people treat you, and well as how it displays your own character. When no more men are chasing the main character and her sisters after her father losses all his ships and income, that really shows how people perceive you when you have money. Others act as if your are royalties just because you have more pieces of paper then they do. I love how the author also shows that even though the girl is forced to go live with the beast, it is still the most freedom she has ever felt. I thought this was a really cool concept. Even when someone is forcing he to do something, she can still feel free, and even when she has the freedom to do what she wants, she still feels restricted. I think The Tale of the Shoe really points out some things that women struggle with today. For example, when the main character says she asked to go to the ball and then says “isn’t that what girls are meant to ask for?”, I find that line very interesting. I like how the author used it to show that maybe the girl did not know what else to ask because the only thing she could think of worth a women’s time would be going to a ball. As if asking for anything else would be stupid. I also thing the girls and women today struggle with eating disorders, which is mentioned when the girl refuses to eat, and when she does, she throws it all up.

I believe the book is called kissing the which because it is something someone would never think of doing. And I think the stories in this book are twisted in a way people never would have thought of or expected. So I think the title is a sort of lead in for how the book is.