![]() ![]() ![]() The blurb describes it was “building on homages to Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Jane Austen’s Emma and the Chinese legend of Hua Mulan,” but the reasons for this smorgasbord of fictional allusions are not entirely clear. If this sounds like too complex a melange of imaginative areas for you, Hannah West’s Kingdom of Ash and Briars might fry your brain. Until that damned ring-tailed lemur reappears with revenge in his eyes, anyway. The tunes are banging) provides the entertainment. ![]() It’s a world in which Cinderella cheerfully enjoys a picnic with Rapunzel, while DJ Pon-3 from Equestria Girls (have you seen Equestria Girls, by the way? You should. She is blessed with both a vivid imagination and the most ridiculously large toy collection the world has ever known, and her concept of narrative boundaries is roughly on a developmental par with her acceptance of defeat in My Little Pony Monopoly consequently, an average game will begin with Disney princess figures, take in a guest appearance from the Avengers and then be destroyed by a vengeful cuddly ring-tailed lemur. Playing with my daughter is, for the uninitiated, a confusing experience. ![]()
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