Fairytales for Wilde Girls speaks to the unadulterated, dreamer me who just wanted my writing to be beautiful. Meanwhile I was writing about trees that uprooted themselves and set off on magical adventures to find water. It's the kind of writing I was doing and wanted to do in all my own creative writing uni classes, but always felt repressed by students and tutors who wanted serious, hip, navel-gazing statements - 'serious' writing that could only be taken 'seriously' if it was socially and culturally 'serious'. And yet, Fairytales is a glorious mish-mash of old and young, sweet and bitter, light and dark, classic and unique - so I guess my mixed feelings are quite adequate. It puts you on a wondrous rollercoaster, taking you on unexpected twists and turns. Fairytales for Wilde Girls has taken me on a journey that no other book has before. Hair that curled without use of an iron and sweet dresses that didn’t matter were dirtied. Fairytales for Wilde Girls is a book I went from being thoroughly engrossed in, to thinking it was overwritten, to admiring the luscious descriptions, to feeling a little put off by easy sentimentality, to absolutely loving the bubblegum-goth inspired descriptions, to cringing at a little too much heroine idolising. One of Booktopia’s younger friends, Isabel Blackmore, shares her thoughts on the upcoming Fairytales For Wilde Girls by Allyse Near. Allyse Near, Fairytales for Wilde Girls tags: fairies, fairytales, kiss 29 likes Like A memory: Isola as a toddler, sugarlump teeth, skin still smelling of milk.
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