I love fairy tale retelling books. Can you tell me some?
I love fairy tale retelling books. Can you tell me some?
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I love fairy tale retelling books. Can you tell me some?
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I don’t know if it’s a retelling so much as a nod to lots of common fairy tale themes but John Connolly’s The Book of Lost Things springs to mind 🙂
Thanks. I’ll have to check it out !
Love this book!
The Princess Bride, Wicked, Mirror Mirror, Red as Blood(horror), Politically Correct Bedtime Stories (comedy)
Jackson Pearce is brilliant.
I have an ongoing one right now. Tristan and Isolde Reloaded. You can find it for free at http://www.ana-calin.com/ 🙂 I hve around 15 chapters so far, but it’s moving forward fast
Juliet Marrillier’s books, all are beautiful
Briar Rose, can’t remember the author.
Robin McKinley.
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
JK ITS PORN. hahahhaha
Wicked and its sequels are retellings of Wizard of Oz.
dont tell people that thats how I was tricked into reading it XD ‘
Technically, it is a retelling of the fairy tale, 😂.
A.G. Howard Alice in the wonderland
The Faerie Tale Collection by Jenni James
If you can find it… read proper, uncensored versions of The Grimm’s Fairy Tales… without all the Disney sugarcoating… also if you find it watch this horror-musical called The Lure. Which is a Polish movie about mermaids…the way mermaids are supposed to be
Ruby and The Beast by Ditter
the beast within was really good YA
“Rump (Rumpelstiltskin) & “Jack: “The Story of Jack & the Beanstalk,” by Liesl Shurtliff. She’s also written a re-telling of Little Red Riding Hood.
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Robin McKinley’s Beauty. This is a favorite of mine. If you read it, I do hope you enjoy it as much as I do
Anything by Robin McKinley, really.
So true
Beastly
I love what Mercedes Lackey has done to many well known fairy tales, her Fairy Godmother series, her Elemental series, and The Fire Rose which is a stand alone but seems it must have inspired her to do the Elemental series, and her versions of Swan Lake, called the Black Swan and the Russian fairy tale the Firebird.
Spindle fire! It’s a retelling of sleeping beauty and I loved it! There will be a second book though
Out of Abaton. 😍
The Ugly Stepsister
Lunar Chronicles
Steampunk Fairy tales
The lunar chronicles ❤💜
After Alice, I’m currently reading it and it is amazing
Gregory McGuire’s Oz themed series (Wicked + all the sequels thouigh Son of the Witch may be my favorite) as well as The Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Lost etc.
I’m reading those next year!
I havent read it but its on my TBR list…..cruel beauty ny roasmund hodge
On my tbr. I read the Aladdin one.
Me too 🙂
Heartless, and shadow queen. I haven’t read them yet tho.
The beast within and frog kisser also
Do you like alice in wonderland?
Nicke yes! I’ve been wanting to read shadow queen as well
You should read Splintered. Great alice in wonderland retelling 😍
Nicke thank you!!!
Welcome:D
I also ordered alice in zombieland but haven’t read it yet
Add a bunch to my TBR pile lol
I just checked out splintered!
A Court of Thorns and roses- beauty and the beast
A Court of Mist and Fury- Hades and Persephone
The Child Thief by Gerald Brom was awesome. It is a very twisted version of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys.
It’s a horror book so don’t read if you’re not into that stuff.
The 500 kingdoms series by Mercedes Lackey was great. Fantasy genre.
Spindle, spelled, of beauty and beast, the Lunar Chronicles, lost in a book…
Neil Gaiman has some good graphic novel retellings. One of them is called, “Spindle”. I can’t remember the other, atm.
It’s Hansel and Gretel, though I think I spelled it wrong.
Following, i love these too.
ACOTAR lol beastly
Lunar Chronicles
Hunted by Maegan Spooner
Lunar Chronicles
Throne of Glass
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Hunted
Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block.
Books written by Alex Flinn! 🙂
Following, these are my current obsession ❤
The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski
Wintersong.
Robin McKinlay has a load of them
Stealing Beauty by Jessica
Mechanics by Betsy Cornwall 😍
Sweetly by Jackson Pearce..that’s the only one I’ve read so far but any of his books would probably do
I said the same she is brilliant. Have you read Gregory Maguire? He did the Wicked books. Most of his are set around corrupted fairy tales too.
I have not!
Pamela he has done one called After Alice, he did a corrupted version of Cinderella, Mirror mirror was a Snow White loosely based version. The Wicked series are a more grown up take on Wizard of Oz.
I feel like I have those on my list lol
Thursday by Catherine Storr is my favorite. It’s a children’s book but it’s a modern retelling of Tam Lin.
Following.
Cinder – cinderella
Scarlet – red riding hood
Cress – rapunzel
Winter – snow white
They all belong to Marissa Meyer from the series of the lunar chronicles