(Heh heh, very valuable blurb there.)
Anyway, I’m not a fan of fairy tales, so how did I end up with this book? I buy a lot of comics, and sometimes the publishers solicit books along with comics, and it’s not always clear what’s what, so I end up with random comics-adjacent-ish books.
De Souza’s artwork is very nice. The fairy tales aren’t that bad, really, on a fairy tale scale. Campbell has selected some pretty unusual (and gruesome) fairy tales, and tell them in a non-annoying way. But it’s just not my thing. I really wonder who this book is for — I can’t really imagine many children would enjoy this a lot either.
I mean, some of the stories are just straight-up jokes. (The above isn’t altogether typical — it’s just one page long.)
I guess the target market segment for this is “cool aunts who are looking for gifts”?
The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales (2021) by Jen Campbell (buy new, buy used, 4.15 on Goodreads)