Tag: #retelling

• Twisted Tales: Princess of Thieves Review

  What if Maid Marian was the real outlaw? Three years after her beloved uncle, King Richard, and best friend, Robin of Locksley went to war, and Maid Marian went to Paris for schooling, Marian is back. The war is over and her uncle promised her a spot on his council. But she is greeted at…

  rachelbeerwoman

  October 20, 2024

  Reviews

  #disneyhyperion, #marimancusi, #princessofthieves, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #robinhood, #twistedtales, #YA

• Elizabeth Lim Interview

  Elizabeth Lim is the best-selling author of the East Asian-inspired, Six Crimson Cranes and Her Radient Curse as well as several books in the Twisted Tales series. She kindly took the time for a quick interview about her influences, editing her first anathology and her upcoming work. Enjoy! 1. What was the first book(s)/writer that…

  rachelbeerwoman

  April 2, 2024

  Interview

  #disneyhyperion, #elizabethlim, #harpercollins, #herradientcurse, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #sixcrimsoncranes, #twistedtales, #wildswans, #YA

• Classics Remixed

  If you’re ever in the mood for a classic but aren’t in the mindset to translate the sometimes archaic eighteenth/nineteenth century language and lengthy descriptors, or just plain want classic characters that look like you and apply to your experiences, try Feiwel & Friends’ latest line, Classics Remixed. I briefly highlighted the premiere book in…

  rachelbeerwoman

  March 15, 2024

  Book Suggestions, Book/Author Highlight

  #ardenhigh, #c.l.lee, #cheriedimaline, #clashofsteel, #disneyhyperion, #feiwel&friends, #graphicnovel, #intothebrightopen, #katelynbayron, #kingcheer, #kinglear, #macmillan, #mollyhortonbooth, #mydearhenry, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #secretgarden, #stephaniekatestrohm, #thestrangecaseofdrjeyllandmrhyde, #treasureisland, #twelfthgradenight, #twelthnight, #williamshakespeare, #YA

• Feb Books

  All the Fighting Parts by Hannah V. Sawyerr This poetry follows in the vein of Elizabeth Acevedo with short prose that pack a punch. Makes sense as Sawyerr thanks Acevedo for her mentorship and help in the acknowledgements. But Sawyerr’s work stands on its own as she tackles the difficult topic of assault and what…

  rachelbeerwoman

  February 29, 2024

  Book Suggestions

  #allthefightingparts, #avonbooks, #breatheandcountbackfromten, #contemporaryromance, #hannahvsawyerr, #harpercollins, #janeausten, #joyagoffney, #myweekwithhim, #nataliasylvester, #nikkipayne, #penguinrandomhouse, #rachelreads&reviews, #realisticfiction, #retelling, #senseandsensibility, #sexliesandsensibility, #YA

• Wicked Review

  Alright, I knew this wasn’t going to be like the movie or the musical but I hadn’t expected how political or dark this was going to be.

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 29, 2023

  Reviews

  #gregorymaguire, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #wicked, #williammorrowbooks, #williammorrowpaperbacks, #wizardofoz

• 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

• Hiddensea: The Once and Future Nutcracker Review

  Maguire takes readers to a deep dark wood where Dirk the foundling dies and comes back to life. It’s a traumatic incident and the foundling boy, who was never quite whole in the first place, ventures out into the world. Alone, and lost, apart from others and haunted by the past he blocked out, Dirk…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 1, 2023

  Reviews

  #gregorymaguire, #hiddensea, #morrowpaperbacks, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #thenutcracker, #theonceandfuturenutcracker, #williammorrowpaperbacks

• November Books

  Hotel of Secrets by Diane Biller It is New Years Eve in Vienna and Maria Wallner is determined to rebbuild the Wallner Hotel, her family legacy even though her mother neglected it throughout the economic downturn. The hotel is her life and provides a distraction from romance which all of Vienna is waiting for her…

  rachelbeerwoman

  December 1, 2023

  Book Suggestions

  #anitakunz, #ashleyherringblake, #avonromance, #berkleyromance, #blackstonepublishing, #chrisbohjalian, #chriscolfer, #coraline, #crystalsmithpaul, #dianebiller, #didyouhearaboutkittykarr, #historicalfiction, #iriskellydoesn’tdate, #janeausten, #justahat, #kilalaprincess, #manga, #memoir, #middlegrade, #midwives, #neilgainman, #nikkipayne, #nonfiction, #pantheonbooks, #prideandprotest, #rachelreads&reviews, #retelling, #rikatanaka, #robinbenway, #skubiar, #strangerthanfanfiction, #theextraordinarysecretsofaprilmayandjune, #thelastblackunicorn, #tiffanyhaddish, #toyokopop, #womenshistory, #YA, hotelofsecrets