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Trope Tuesday: Fairy tale Retelling – Heart of the Fae

This month for the Trope Tuesday Link-Up I am going to do things a little differently. I am going to do a review of a book that I think fits the trope. This week's trope is fairy tale retelling, and I will be reviewing the Heart of the Fae by Emma Hamm. As a reminder each week there will be a trope for you to use as inspiration, find the trope list here.…
August 4, 2020
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My Favorite Retellings

This week's Top Ten Tuesday is a Genre Freebie.  So, I decided to focus on one of my favorite fantasy sub genres, retellings. I love fairy tales.  And so getting to read some of my favorite fairy tales re-imagined is just amazing! I tend to enjoy retellings that are a little out there.  I don't want to re-read Beauty and the Beast, I want to read an amazing book inspired by a fairy…
March 24, 2020
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ARC Book Review: Of Curses and Kisses

Of Curses and Kisses by Sandhya Menon Genre: Fantasy, Re-Telling, Young Adult Release Date: February 18 Book 1 in the St. Rosetta's Academy Series Rating:  4/5 Synopsis Jaya Rao’s family and Grey Emerson’s family have been feuding for years.  When Jaya finds out Grey will be attending the same boarding school as she is she hatches a plan to make Grey fall in love with her and then break his heart. But…
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ARC Review: Night Spinner

Night Spinner by Addie Thorley Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Retelling Release Date: February 11 Rating:  4/5 Synopsis Enebish was one of the  Night Spinners, gifted with the ability to control the threads of darkness. After annihilating a merchant caravan with her powers she has been banished to a monastery.  She tries to move on with her life but when she is given an offer, capture the notorious criminal Temujin, she can’t refuse the…
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ARC Book Review: Rogue Princess

Rogue Princess by B.R. MyersGenre: Young Adult, Sci-Fi, Retelling Release Date: January 21 Rating:  4/5 SynopsisTo avoid marriage Princess Delia steals a spaceship.  Little does she know she has a stowaway. Aidan and Delia are at each other’s throats, at least until they discover a rebel conspiracy that could wipe out their home.    This post contains affiliate links. You can read more on my disclosures page. Thank you to Swoon Reads for providing…
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ARC Book Review: Dark and Deepest Red

Dark and Deepest Red by Anna-Marie McLemore Genre: Young Adult Fantasy, Retelling, Historical Fiction Release Date: January 14, 2020 Rating:  4/5 Synopsis In the Summer of 1518, a strange dancing plague is released over the land and Lavinia is accused of witchcraft.   Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. Emil recognizes the signs because it was his family that was accused in…
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Book Review: Lifestyles of Gods and Monsters by Emily Roberson

Synopsis Sixteen-year-old Ariadne’s whole life is curated and shared with the world. Her royal family’s entertainment empire is beloved by the tabloids, all over social media, and the hottest thing on television. The biggest moneymaker? The Labyrinth Contest, a TV extravaganza in which Ariadne leads fourteen teens into a maze to kill a monster. To win means endless glory; to lose means death. In ten seasons, no one has ever won.When the gorgeous,…
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Darkwood by Gabby Hutchinson Crouch

Thank you to Farrago Books for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.   You mustn't go into the Darkwood, children. Not even to get your ball. Leave it. That ball belongs to the Witches and the Beasties, now. Those wicked Witches. Stealing your ball. Magic is forbidden in Myrsina, along with various other abominations, such as girls doing maths. This is bad news for Gretel Mudd,…
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House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

Thank you to Random House Children Books for sending me an electronic copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.   Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea, with her sisters, their father, and stepmother. Once they were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last—the plague, a plummeting…
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The Beast’s Heart by Leife Shallcross

 A luxuriously magical retelling of Beauty and the Beast set in seventeenth-century France--and told from the point of view of the Beast himself.I am neither monster nor man—yet I am both.I am the Beast.He is a broken, wild thing, his heart’s nature exposed by his beastly form. Long ago cursed with a wretched existence, the Beast prowls the dusty hallways of his ruined château with only magical, unseen servants to keep him company—until a weary…