Category: Rankings
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I’m calling these supplemental books because they are fun extras that expand the world, but you don’t necessarily need to read them. They’re just fun, I mean you can’t tell a writer enjoys their world when they keep adding stuff to it. I get it. Goldilocks: Wanted Dead or Alive: Alright, this one gets a…
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I know I said I’d redo this once I read all the arcs but since arc 10 and arc 11 aren’t going to be published until next year, I decided just to add my thoughts on Arc 9 now before I forget it too much. Unfortunately, it ranks the very last as I’ll explain below.
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I think most people know this series as it’s one of the more popular fractured fairytale series, and deservedly so, with Buckley’s sincere pathos, humor and adventurous escapades. But for those not in the know. Sabrina, and Daphne’s lives have turned for the worst in the past year, bouncing from awful foster situation to Dickinsinian…
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In the midst of of WW1, the four Purcell sisters come of age in the backyard of the local pastor’s family, the Mackenzies finding love, fufillment, and venturing out to the big world after their parents’ deaths. Frances’s Story: As the eldest, Frances is the most driven to provide for her sisters as well as…
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In the village of Enchantsia, Gilly is often on the run from the Dwarf Police Squad for petty theft but what else can she do? Since the Fairy Godmother (yes, that one of Cinderella fame) stole her father’s patent for glass slippers, their family has a shoestring budget. She only steals from the rich but…
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The prequel to Colfer’s popular middle grade fantasy series, The Land of Stories, this trilogy takes us to the oppressive world of Brystal Evergreen. Chariot Hills and the rest of the Southern Kingdom are ruled by old white men and predictably, religion, and patriarchy reign surpreme. Women can’t read, gender roles are strictly enforced and…
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Yep, the same tale that Disney’s The Princess and the Frog was loosely based on. Mainly the kissing the frog and turning into a frog herself part, everything else veers off into a totally original and delightful fractured fairytale about Princess Emma (short for Emerald) and her adventures in honing her magic that include breaking…
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It’s clear that Levine excells in her humorous fractured fairytales and the short stories of The Princess Tales are no exception. The Fairy’s Mistake: Maybe it’s cheating to put the first book as umber one but it’s such a fun introduction to the series and features one of my favorite obscure tales-Diamonds and Toads, and…
