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Fairy Tales Retold #7
Hansel and Gretel: Devil Children
Please This is a novella. Shorter fiction is a fun and quick read, not a full length novel.History is told from one person’s perspective. Sometimes they don’t get it right.Imagine marrying the man of your dreams, living in a cute little cabin in the woods, and your stepchildren trying to kill you.Confronted by the evil children, an innocent stepmother tries desperately to show her husband his kids’ true nature. When he doesn’t believe her, she must take matters into her own hands.Can she defeat the evil children, or will the stepmother be the one thrust into a burning hot oven at the end of the day?A wicked twist to the story of Hansel and Gretel, told completely from the point of view of the stepmother.Also in the Fairy Tales Retold is EvilSaving RapunzelKilling Snow WhiteUgly Sleeping BeautyI Love Little RedThe Beast With No Beauty
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Published October 18, 2018
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Jamie Campbell
138 books272 followersJamie was born into a big, crazy family of 6 children. Being the youngest, she always got away with anything and would never shut up. Constantly letting her imagination run wild, her teachers were often frustrated when her ‘What I did on the weekend’ stories contained bunyips and princesses.
Growing up, Jamie did the sensible things and obtained a Bachelor of Business degree from Southern Cross University and worked hard to gain her membership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Yet nothing compared to writing. Quitting the rat race to spend quality time with her laptop named Lily, Jamie has written several novels and screenplays. Spanning a number of genres and mediums, Jamie writes whatever inspires her from ghost stories to teenage love stories to tantalising murder mysteries. Nothing is off limits.
A self-confessed television addict, dog lover, Taylor Swift fan, and ghost hunter, Jamie loves nothing more than the thrill of sharing her stories.
Growing up, Jamie did the sensible things and obtained a Bachelor of Business degree from Southern Cross University and worked hard to gain her membership with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.
Yet nothing compared to writing. Quitting the rat race to spend quality time with her laptop named Lily, Jamie has written several novels and screenplays. Spanning a number of genres and mediums, Jamie writes whatever inspires her from ghost stories to teenage love stories to tantalising murder mysteries. Nothing is off limits.
A self-confessed television addict, dog lover, Taylor Swift fan, and ghost hunter, Jamie loves nothing more than the thrill of sharing her stories.
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September 16, 2022
Imaginative Retelling
Children certainly can be Imaginative, but evil? There are stories and tales about that, and this novella absolutely falls in that category. Was the stepmom totally in her rights? To her feelings, without a doubt. To how far she carried out her plan, that is harder to tell. It doesn't fit into anyway that I could describe healthy parenting. But then again, how the children behaved at the first doesn't fall into any good category either. Still, I appreciate that the series ended on a better note then the three previous ones did.
Children certainly can be Imaginative, but evil? There are stories and tales about that, and this novella absolutely falls in that category. Was the stepmom totally in her rights? To her feelings, without a doubt. To how far she carried out her plan, that is harder to tell. It doesn't fit into anyway that I could describe healthy parenting. But then again, how the children behaved at the first doesn't fall into any good category either. Still, I appreciate that the series ended on a better note then the three previous ones did.
February 1, 2022
What's new about demon stepchildren? They are as common as demon stepparents.
August 4, 2023
Good idea, but I just don't see two kids who were so awful that they killed their own mother over a bad meal changing because of one day of having to clean and sit in a cage.
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September 2, 2021In this version of Hansel and Gretel, the beleaguered stepmother of these two misbehaving children discovers the gingerbread house in the woods, and decides to use it to teach them a lesson.
As with I Love Little Red and Beast With No Beauty, this doesn't flip the narrative to make the witch sympathetic so much as it recontextualizes the condition of the children's abandonment and captivity in the gingerbread house.
While the children are not as guileless as they are in the original story, they are also still very young. Arguably, this version's stepmother essentially trying to scare them into obedience is better than the original version's mother ordering their abandonment in the forest.
As happens in many of these stories, characters seem to make decisions more because that was what happened in the original story than because of any logical thinking process that would make it make sense. I found myself wishing the author had constrained herself less, because I would have been really interested to see a more creative way that the main character might have used the gingerbread house to solve her problems.
As with I Love Little Red and Beast With No Beauty, this doesn't flip the narrative to make the witch sympathetic so much as it recontextualizes the condition of the children's abandonment and captivity in the gingerbread house.
While the children are not as guileless as they are in the original story, they are also still very young. Arguably, this version's stepmother essentially trying to scare them into obedience is better than the original version's mother ordering their abandonment in the forest.
As happens in many of these stories, characters seem to make decisions more because that was what happened in the original story than because of any logical thinking process that would make it make sense. I found myself wishing the author had constrained herself less, because I would have been really interested to see a more creative way that the main character might have used the gingerbread house to solve her problems.
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