I am always going to pick up a book that involves folklore, so when I heard about The Bear and the Nightingale, I knew it would make for a great audio book. Based on several different Russian folktales, the story follows Vasya, or Vasilisa, who is a favorite folk heroine of mine. What I thought […]
Genre: Retelling
Average Rating: 3.5
Ex Libris Romance (77)
I am all for a Jane Austen retelling, but The One That Got Away, while somewhat fun, was a pale copy of the original (Persuasion). The characters weren’t very well developed and it seemed to rely too heavily on the original instead of taking a story frame and developing new and better ways to convey […]
Blog Tour: Spindle Fire
There was a time when I read so many retellings. I was all about it and then they all started reading like the same story, so I took a break from that particular subgenre. However, Spindle Fire’s unique take on Sleeping Beauty caught my interest. Instead of faeries gifting a child with favorable traits, they […]
Blog Tour: Mighty Jack
Welcome to my stop in the blog tour for Mighty Jack by Ben Hatke! I’ll be sharing my pick for favorite fairy tale retelling AND my thoughts on Mighty Jack. If you’d like to stop by the other blog hosts on this tour, you can find them here When I think about retellings, […]
Blog Tour: Heartless
Welcome to my stop on the Heartless Blog Tour! After you’ve read my thoughts, don’t forget to enter for a chance to win a pre-order! There’s only 41 DAYS TILL HEARTLESS! When I heard about Heartless I was a tad skeptical because there have been a number of Alice in Wonderland retellings, but […]
Blog Tour: Reign Of Shadows
I always enjoy unique retellings, and this definitely fits into that category. I really enjoyed the world that Sophie Jordan built in Reign If Shadows, although I would never want to live in it, myself! It was full of danger and, well, really gross creatures, but that’s what made it fun to read! Luna’s […]
Prize Pack Giveaway: A Thousand Nights
Welcome to the prize pack giveaway of A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston. You can read a little bit about the book and if that doesn’t convince you, there’s a link to the first four chapters! The publisher is also sponsoring a pretty awesome prize pack, so don’t forget to enter for a chance […]
The Wrath And The Dawn By Renee Ahdieh
The Wrath and the Dawn was an entertaining twist on a very old story. Drawing upon the story that framed all of the others in One Thousand and One Nights, The Wrath and the Dawn creates a Shahrzad who volunteers to marry the murdering king in order to avenge the death of her best friend. […]
Hold Me Like A Breath By Tiffany Schmidt
The first thing you realize about Penelope is that she is very much a prisoner. She is a prisoner to her rare illness and a prisoner to the fears of her parents. For that reason, she lives in a world where she is sheltered from the outside, but she is not sheltered from the […]
YOLO Juliet and SRSLY Hamlet
It’s not often that you are pitched a book that is written entirely in text conversations and emojis, so this review isn’t going to be conventional, but I think everything worked out ok. My English teacher friends often ask their students to put Shakespeare into the modern speak of teenagers as a […]