I love Isobelle Carmody and I adore fairytales - so I really couldn't even imagine turning this book down. But wow. I enjoyed all of the tales but my favourite hands down Eternity by Rosie Borella. It blew me away. The premise was so utterly riveting and it was so well written and it had me glued to the page the entire time - I was devastated at the end. The rest of the tales were fantastic and definitely worth reading if you enjoy fairytales. ( )

Read this again because Isobelle Carmody has a short-story in it. It's not Obernewtyn related, but I still liked it. Also, I really enjoyed all the stories in here. They're all retelling/fairytale esque stories. Enjoyed them all very much. ( )

I've always enjoyed a good re-imagining (and I've read many a bad one in my search) of a fairytale and on the whole this is collection contains a good variety.

Not that they are all fantastic, edge of the seat stuff but there are definitely a few of them that I truly enjoy reading. The underlying themes are definitely not for the younger set

My top one from my read today:

Eternity - Rosie Borella:
this is a re-telling of the Snow Queen linking it to drug use which works really well to realise a mirror which makes the ugly look beautiful. There is still a bit of magic in the pages, just enough to retain the fantastic element.

I don't particularly know why this is the one that speaks to me but there's just something about the phrasing (maybe it's just due to exposure to Frozen and wanting a less sanitized versoin) ( )

This little collection of fairy tales retold blew my mind.
A love of re-visiting fairy stories, reading Australian YA fiction and stretching my comfort zone were all fulfilled in the rather astounding 'Wilful Eye'.

Margo Lanagan, as always, offers a thought provoking case of attraction/repulsion in her 'Catastrophic Disruption of the Head' and I was absolutely charmed by Margaret Mahy's 'Wolf Night' and Richard Harland's thoughtful conclusion in 'Heart of the Beast'.
Isobelle Carmody's introduction and each writer's explanation of their creative journey added pleasure to my reading experience and helped me to understand where each writer was coming from.

It's a long term goal of mine to write as beautifully and with as much intrigue as these talented Australian writers and end up in some such anthology. Meanwhile I'm hanging out in anticipation for volume 2.