Kissing the Witch

My favorite was The Tale of the Rose. I have never read the original fairy tales, but this one really caught my attention. I can not believe that a father would stick to his promise so much that he would give his own daughter away to an awful looking beast. Then for that beast to be a woman was a huge turn events and one that I don’t think fairy tales usually do. I think all of the stories can capture the situation of women today, it just depends how you look into it. The Tale of the Bird if you are a women that feels trapped. The Tale of the Brother if you feel like women always get less then men. They are all about choosing your path in the world and I feel like women are faced with this decision daily.

I think the author chose to title the book Kissing the Witch because all of her fairy tales are kind of in the “unexpected” category. The women don’t rely on men like they are usually made out to do and they are able to take care for their own problems and the beast was even a women. I think it was very unexpected to kiss a witch so just like her whole book the title would follow the lead of unexpected things.