In "Little Knife," a poor Grisha who can control a river competes for the hand of the Duke's beautiful daughter in a series of trials. A girl named Nadya seeks the help of a hermit witch who knows more about the problem than she's letting on.
In "The Witch of Duva," girls continue to go missing from a starving village. In "The Too-Clever Fox," a fox tries to outsmart a hunter and almost gets outsmarted himself. She has only stories and her honesty to help her survive. The Zemeni tale called "Ayama and the Thorn Wood" pits a homely village girl against a prince exiled from the castle because he was born a monster. In THE LANGUAGE OF THORNS: MIDNIGHT TALES AND DANGEROUS MAGIC, six fairy tales from four different parts of the Grisha world come together with color illustrations. Two male characters are described as heavy drinkers who frequent taverns. Teens, adults, mermaids, bears, and foxes drink wine, beer, and plum brandy at parties and in the woods. There's kissing, straight and gay a girl hears her father and stepmother having sex on the other side of her locked door, with banging and moaning and Sildroher (mermaids) take lovers on land, with nothing described. Beyond the violence, sexual content and drinking make these stories best for teens. Expect some deaths and gross moments: a boy murdered, his lungs carved out a person about to eat a child, with talk of others taken and missing eyes pecked out by a bird knives splitting mermaid fins into legs a talking animal almost skinned alive and many others hunted and killed coyotes tearing the insides from a guard. They are cast aside for not being pretty or important, and those who belittled them often pay a price in the end. The resourceful and brave characters in these stories are mostly young women facing difficult trials. You can read and enjoy these illustrated dark fairy tales inspired by "Hansel and Gretel," "The Little Mermaid," The Velveteen Rabbit, and more without reading other books in the series. Three of the six stories previously appeared in a 2015 collection called Folktales from Ravka.
Parents need to know that The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic is set in the world of author Leigh Bardugo's Grisha trilogy and Six of Crows duology.
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