From Damsels into Dragons
by Hannah Birss
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Pub Date 2 Jul 2025 | Archive Date 25 Sep 2025
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Description
These are not the fairy tales you grew up on.
Inside these pages are stories of female rage, revenge, and reward, with beautiful woodcut illustrations to accompany them. Here, women fight the wolves that come for them, or rebel against their traditional happily-ever-after. Here, we see the bonds of sisterhood, of motherhood, of family both blood and forged, and the just desserts of those that would harm the women around them.
Here, there are no damsels.
Here, there be dragons.
Advance Praise
5/5 - Sometimes you read a book and it just completely consumes you. This book did that to me and I will be thinking about it forever! Once again, Hannah Birss has written an amazingly unique collection of stories for readers. From Damsels Into Dragons explores some of our favorite fairytales in a completely new, dark way. The women in these stories were created to replace the toxicity of the classics and turn our damsels into heroines. These stories are not gentle and may be triggering for some readers. Please take care of your mental health even while reading! 💜From Damsels Into Dragons provides much needed poetic justice for our fmcs and can be incredibly healing for readers who have experienced the topics explored in these stories!
5/5 - Grimm Fairy tales with a awesome twist! We all know the dark fairy tales that end in the female character or characters meeting their unpleasant end, not Hannah's women.
This book take some well known tales and some not so well know, possible her own, stories and turns them into feminine power!
Not only are the stories great messages and fun to read, they are short stories. It has 10 stories and each story begins with a drawing. I wouldn't say it's all ages but definitely YA and up.
This book isn't meant to be Kindle. It's meant to be on your bookshelf. Love the design and details.
5/5 - This collection of dark fairy tales with a twist, were amazing. It was feminine rage at its finest, for good reason. The art work is stunning, everything was perfect. Can't wait to read more from this author!
5/5 - I never thought I would be hooked by the content page, but here we are 😂
“The stories within are based on traditional fairytales and folklore, rewritten to acknowledge the harm done to women in the original tales and to give the women within them agency and a voice.”
These short stories definitely delivered on this promise! They are full of women empowerment, women taking control of their own lives, and gave me a feeling of hope for the future of our rights. As a bonus, each story is precede by a gorgeous illustration.
Available Editions
EDITION | Ebook |
ISBN | 9780988087569 |
PRICE | CA$4.99 (CAD) |
PAGES | 86 |