Tag: #fairytale

• Sept Books

  Hera by Jennifer Saint Hera usually gets a bad rap by modern perspectives. A shrew, a horrible mother, a jealous bitch are the most common modifiers. Her husband cheats but she punishes the mistresses instead of Zeus himself. Then again, it’s not like she can go on a one on one attack with the King…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 30, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #avonromance, #cinderella, #disney, #disneyhyperion, #enchanters, #fairygodmother, #fairytale, #fantasy, #feliciagrossman, #flatironbooks, #greekmythology, #hera, #historicalromance, #jencalonita, #jennifersaint, #marrymebymidnight, #middlegrade, #prequel, #rachelreads&reviews, #regencyromance, #retellings, #snowwhite, #wakememostwickedly

• Book Highlight: Rapunzel’s Revenge & Calamity jack

  If you like Westerns and if you like fairytales, these are for you! Really, they should be everyone cuz comics are cool but that’d be too after-school special. However, I just found it amazing because the fairytale genre just doesn’t have a lot of western AUs. School or towns full of fairytale characters, yes. Erotic…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 13, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #calamityjack, #deanhale, #fairytale, #graphicnovels, #jackandthebeanstalk, #nathanhale, #rachelreads&reviews, #rapunzel, #rapunzel’srevenge, #retelling, #shannonhale

• Author Highlight: Neil Gainman

  Initially I was going to stop at Gainman’s classic child horror tale, Coraline, but I saw that he has several fairytale adaptations in his repatoire so I felt I had to read them to complete my fairytale TBR pile. Let’s get to it! The Sleeper and the Spindle was the only “high school” level book…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 7, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #chrisriddell, #colleendoran, #fairytale, #graphicnovel, #hanselandgretel, #lorenzomattotti, #neilgainman, #picturebooks, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #snowglassapples, #thesleeperandthespindle

• The Bloody Chamber (and Other Stories)

  You know how darker, sexier retellings of fairytales are all the rage? Well you have Angela Carter to thank for that subgenre in fairytale retellings with her collection of short stories that subvert and invert these popular tales to pay homage to their darker origins while making it slyly progressive. Putting the females in peril…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 5, 2023

  Book/Author Highlight

  #angelacarter, #fairytale, #inthecompanyofwolves, #penguinrandomhouse, #pussinboots, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #thebloodychamber, #thebloodychamberandotherstories, #thecourtshipofmrlyon, #theerlking, #theladyofthehouseoflove, #thesnowchild, #thetiger’sbride, #thewerewolf, #wolfalice

• Mirror, Mirror Review

  Maguire sets his tale of vanity and murder in 16th century Italy where the wicked queen is played by a historical domain character, Lucrenzia Borgia, sister to Ceseare Borgia who was the inspiration for Machavelli’s The Prince. Lucrenzia is vain but her jealousy of Bianca, the girl as white as snow stems from her brother’s…

  rachelbeerwoman

  November 29, 2023

  Reviews

  #fairytale, #gregorymaguire, #mirrormirror, #morrowpaperbacks, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #retlelling, #snowwhiteandthesevendwarfs, #williammorrow

• Book of a Thousand Days Review

  Well then, I think I finished the Shannon Hale fairytale catalogue and like Gail Carson Levine, she should be applauded for her creative twists on classic tales while paying homage to the darker elements of the originals and bringing her vivid descriptions of nature blending in with magic.

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 2, 2023

  Reviews

  #bloomsbury, #bookofathousanddays, #fairytale, #maidmaleen, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #shannonhale

• The Books of Bayern: The Goose Girl Review

  Hale’s haunting retelling of The Goose Girl starts with a princess, a princess born with a word at her tongue. Once she awakes three days later, she doesn’t know the name but she grows entangled with the speech of animals. It’s an ancient magic, and a distrusted one compared to people-speak. Princess Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 16, 2023

  Reviews

  #bloomsbury, #fairytale, #fantasy, #middlegrade, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #shannonhale, #thebooksofbayern, #thegoosegirl

• Ogre Enchanted Review

  All Evie wants is to be a healer. In fact, she’s running quite a fruitful apothocary for her village in Jenn with her best friend, Wormy as her first patient and bookkeeper. But much to Evie’s distress, Wormy likes her far more than a friend. Even though they’re way too young in Evie’s opinion but…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 13, 2023

  Reviews

  #fairytale, #fantasy, #gailcarsonlevine, #harpercollins, #ogreenchanted, #rachelreads&reviews, #YA

• A Tale of Two Castles Review

  This was unlike any other fairytale Levine has created! Very loosely inspired by Puss in Boots (and by inspired, it has cats, and that’s where the similarities end), Levine creates a distinct new kingdom where 12-year old Elodie sets off to apprentice herself as a mansioner. That’s the word for actor over there. But apprenticenships…

  rachelbeerwoman

  September 12, 2023

  Reviews

  #ataleoftwocastles, #fairytale, #fantasy, #gailcarsonlevine, #harpercollins

• Ranking Tales of the Frog Princess

  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…

  rachelbeerwoman

  July 30, 2023

  Rankings

  #bloomsbury, #dragon’sbreath, #e.d.baker, #fairytale, #fantasy, #noplaceformagic, #onceuponacurse, #rachelreads&reviews, #talesofthefrogprincess, #thefrogprincess, #thesalamanderspell