Tales from the Enchanted Forest

May 2026 was a month full of fairy-tales, fantasy, and folklore all with a heaping side dish of feminine rage. While some hit the mark, others fell short in our round-up. Thank you to the publishers and Netgalley for giving us advanced copies of each of the following for review: Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari (Bindery Books) Psyche by Forrest Gladstone (Bosque Publishing) We Dance upon Demons by Vaishnavi Patel (S&S/Saga Press) Vile Lady Villains by Danai Christopoulou (Penguin) Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari (4/5) Mona Tewari’s “Burn the Sea” came out a few weeks ago and its a…