In Poisoned Apples, Heppermann repurposes fairy tales (as well as other pop culture media like commercials and magazines) to explore body image issues of interest to young adults. She puts particular emphasis on anorexia and gender norms. The very short poems are often darkly humorous, several making me laugh out loud. The poems are coupled with black and white photos submitted by a variety of photographers, so they don't illustrate the poem so much as hope to echo the aura of it. I was expecting there to be more fairytale. While the author does draw inspiration from famous fairytales, it's less a retelling and more a critiquing of the message conveyed to girls through those traditional stories. I actually found the poems not working off the princess archetypes to be more compelling, especially the ones throwing shade on the menfolk. The eating disorder ones were fairly disturbing and basically all relate to self starvation. Likely I would have really gotten this book as a teen. I honestly felt a bit old for it now in that I'm not wrapped up in body issues or group acceptance.