Review of Zel

my personal favorite of Napoli's re-tellings and one of my favorite books period. i love how she dalves into the psychological aspects and deeper meanings behind classic fairy tales and she does it beautifully in the novel. don't get tricked by the "young adult" classification, her re-tellings deal with some mature subject matter from insanity to drugs to sex, but she handles it in way that it might be overlooked by the younger readers, but is still appreciated and understood by the older ones.