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Tag reviews Fairy Tales for Princesses Who Love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte

January 14, 2014 by Danika Ellis

Fairy tales have always been one of my favourite things to read, and I’ll eat up retellings of them like nobody’s business. So it should be fairly apparent that I was excited to read lesbian retellings of popular fairy tales. Fairy tales! Modern retellings! Lesbians! That’s a perfect formula for me. The tales in thisRead More

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Jordan reviews Fairy Tales for Princesses who love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte

June 25, 2013 by Danika Ellis

Where ever I go fairy tales always follow me. Although, particularly I’ve been scavenging for fairy tales of the queer variety lately, which means I’ve picked up quite a bit of Sarah Diemer’s work, and I’ve done some reviews on some older ones like Kissing the Witch. But I wanted to try something more recentRead More

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Katie Raynes reviews Fairy Tales for Princesses Who Love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte

December 16, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Fairy Tales for Princesses Who Love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte is a collection of classic fairy tales retold in a modern setting with lesbians as the main couples. It includes adaptations of “The Princess and the Pea,” “Swan Lake,” “Cinderella,” “Beauty and the Beast,” “Sleeping Beauty,” and “The Frog Prince”. The stories are set inRead More

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Alyssa reviews Fairy Tales for Princesses Who Love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte

October 8, 2012 by Danika Ellis

Fairy Tales for Princesses Who Love Dames by Rene von Bonaparte is a collection of fairy tales retold with both a lesbian and a modern twist. The beast and her prisoner, the sleeping beauty and her savior, are all women, and the pea put under the princess’ mattress is a USB drive. The narrative styleRead More

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