![]() ![]() Porter has some tweaks on Vassa’s family as well. She is snarky, stubborn, and suspected by her family of being a kleptomaniac. Vassa, on the other hand, is anything but. ![]() Vasilissa, like Cinderella, is kind and fairly passive. ![]() From there, Vassa’s character veers off from the fairy tale. Our protagonist is Vassa, and like the Vasilissa of the fairy tale, she is a beautiful young girl who lives with her stepmother and two sisters due to the death of her mother and absence of her father. This retelling is set in an alternate reality Brooklyn, New York where bits of magic are commonplace yet something to be completely avoided if possible. It’s similar to the situation with “East of the Sun and West of the Moon” and “Beauty and the Beast.” As I’ve done with those two tales, I will be treating “Vasilissa the Beautiful” as separate from “Cinderella.” So let’s jump into Vassa in the Night! My Rating: 4 stars Warning: Contains spoilers As a Retelling: ![]() While “Vasilissa the Beautiful” is linked to “Cinderella,” it does stand as it’s own entity. This is the winner of the poll for which retelling readers wanted to see featured for books-and-cookies‘s July Re-Read-a-Thon. Anyway, today we are looking at our first ever retelling of the Russian fairy tale “Vasilissa the Beautiful.” This is a reread for me, and I’ve actually reviewed it before too, which you can find here. Welcome back to Fairy Tale Friday! Remember when this was going to be posted in July? Well…oops. ![]()
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