Everyone needs to read this book!
It's imaginative, original, and satisfying (bite-sized is indeed the perfect description).

Whether you're into the glossy, romantic fairytale, or the darker, more realistic fairytale, this collection is for you because it has something for everyone: lyrical descriptiveness for fans of light-hearted fairytales, and dark, suspenseful fantasy for those who find Disney fairytales to be a little lacking.

My absolute favorites were "Milk Teeth," "Cinderella, the Girl Who Loved Fire," and "Beautiful Beast." To me, all 12 of the fairytales featured in Milk Teeth were well-written and creative with fantastic endings, but these three in particular were better than the rest. 

One of the most lyrical and descriptive parts, in my opinion at least, came from "Every Fairy is Born with Three Curses": 
'Puberty comes to all girls, even fairies. Grounded by their increasingly soft and unpredictable bodies, Vivian and Mirth drink elderflower spirits while their parents sleep. Running through the humid, moonlit forest, half-drunk on stolen liquor and hormones, is almost as fun as hurtling through a rain-choked cloud.'

Prescott is clearly a clever, original, and talented writer. I'm thrilled to have had the chance to read this book, and I am looking forward to reading other books written by her in the future. 

Take a chance on this one! You won't be disappointed!


*A copy of this book was kindly provided to me by NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.*

I received this book in return for an honest review.

It is a book of short stories from the world of fairy tales and some are excellent in bringing a magical world to life in a very short time.  The quality of the stories varies and some could have had more focus, but all were thought provoking.

This is not a book to read if you expect your fairy stories to have happy endings.

I found this book while poking around on Netgalley. The starkly beautiful woman on the cover caught my eye and the description sounded like exactly what I was searching for – fairytale retellings that could be read entirely in one sitting. I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review, and I really enjoyed it.

The stories are not the one you’ve heard your whole life. There are 12 stories and they’re all about 3 pages long. Some stories interconnect, while others stand alone. But, no matter what, they definitely put a new spin on the familiar stories. From Cinderella being a pyromaniac, to a darker direction to the Little Mermaid or the Frog Prince, to a few that were new to me. This book was a very fast read and very enjoyable. If you like fairy tales, give it a try! Just be aware that there are no guarantees it will give you a happy ending or sweet dreams!

This book has a terrible flaw: it is too short! Lizella's tales, which sometimes take inspiration from classics of literature of mythopoietic nature and then leave, gloriously, to themselves, are addictive. Their acidic, corrosive nature, without any do-goodism, is so adherent to what should be the human reality if we were not convinced that go against our wishes has a saving role, to be refreshing and even reassuring. The fact is that, after you read the last line, you regret that there are no other.
Thank Hungry Lizard Press and Netgalley for giving me a free copy in exchange for an honest review.

Milk Teeth by Lizella Prescott is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late June.

Prescott's darker, yet bite-sized (ha!) tales are 2-6 pages each and seem to be taken from Cinderella (a pyromaniac), Sleeping Beauty (the daughter of a fae who curses her to wake from death's sleep with true love's kiss), and the Red & White Queen (the Red Queen killing the Huntsman with the original intent to kill the White Queen) stories, to name a few.

"Milk teeth" is a wonderfully written re-telling of some old fairy tales. Lizella Prescott gives them a dark twist with a beautiful prose. Not 
a single word is superfluous, and every sentence is precisely weaved to make the reader gasp in surprise.

I just finished it in a sitting and I'm craving for more. I'll surely read more of Lizella Preston's books.

This is a decent collection of short fairy tales, some based on familiar stories with a twist and some original. You can easily dip in and out as most of the stories are a maximum of a few pages long. This I liked. However, I often found maybe as a detriment because of this shortness, that most of the stories ended very abruptly. In particular, 'Milk Teeth', my favourite and first of the stories, ends just as we're getting into the action and I wanted to read more of this rather than on two pages about a mermaid. Some of the stories we loosely linked - 'Milk Teeth' and 'Toothless' for example, but not coherently enough for my liking. 

The random swearing that sprung up in 'Beauty' I also found off putting and I felt it jarred with the intended audience. I'm all for swearing, but it has to be used in context.

This is a great quick read. I already really enjoy fairy tale retellings and these were especially quirky with modern day parallels! I reccomend to Francesca Lia Block and Neil Gaiman fans.