Rachael Stephen | The Illuminated Heart | Indie Book Review @RachaelStephen | Uploaded December 2015 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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I review one of my favourite ever indie books, The Illuminated Heart by Thea Van Diepen, and consider how it fares as an adaption of Norwegian fairy tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon, the ways it upholds and subverts fairy tale tropes, and if it can still be a fairy tale if it has Christian and spiritual themes.

See more about Thea at expectedabberations.com

// UPDATE: Thea has corrected my pronounciation of her name! It's meant to be 'Taya' //