{"id":2261,"date":"2007-11-01T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:27:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:27:45","slug":"grimm-combo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"A Grimm Combo"},"content":{"rendered":"

This book is a 2007 Fantasy and Science Fiction Cybils Award Nominee<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

Grimm’s tale of the twelve dancing princesses who escape into faery at the full moon is a familiar one. But it combined with the tale of the princess and the frog in Juliette Marillier’s Wildwood Dancing<\/a> creates a story with a slightly unexpected twist.<\/p>\n

Set against the dramatic landscape of Transylvania, this tale of five Romanian sisters — two beautiful, and two plain; one a brilliant scholar, the other practical and full of common sense, and their youngest sister is descriptive and engaging. The girls live in a land where strangeness is common – where Vlad is the name of a strange lordling across the valley, and they live in a house called Piscul Dracului. The dances in the wildwood are the girl’s not-so-secret secret, and it would have been fine for it to remain secret, except that their father, who is in ill-health, must leave their icy valley for warmer climates. He leaves them to their own work, and under the oversight of their Uncle, who is a kindly man with great affection for them. Things are difficult but not impossible until the death of their uncle. Suddenly, their cousin, Cezar, is like a man possessed. Convinced that the girls cannot manage alone, he moves into their house, takes over their lives, and begins a campaign to destroy the wildwood.<\/p>\n

Far and above the fairytale aspects of the wildwood, the interest in this tale is the scary sexism, the feelings of helplessness and the historical idea of a woman’s lack of agency in the face of a man taking charge of things. Readers will cross their fingers for right to win — and of course, it does.<\/p>\n

And everyone lives happily ever after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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