Skip to content
  • Home
  • 2021 Reading Challenge
  • Books
  • Movies
  • Twitter
  • Goodreads

Unleash the Flying Monkeys!

In search of hidden paths and secret worlds.

  • Twitter
  • Goodreads
  • Home
  • 2021 Reading Challenge
  • Books
  • Movies

Tag: fairy tale retellings

Books Posted onJanuary 18, 2017September 16, 2019

The Fox Woman by Kij Johnson

Rating: 3.5 of 5 A fox falls in love with a human and does everything in her power to win him for herself, no matter…

Books Posted onDecember 29, 2016September 16, 2019

Sleeping in Flame by Jonathan Carroll

Rating: 4 of 5 A modern fairy tale mixed with the metaphysical set firmly in the real world of the 1980s. “Do you read mystery…

Books Posted onDecember 19, 2016September 16, 2019

Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney

Rating: 4 of 5 A collection of five novellas, Bone Swans exceeded my expectations. I’ll admit to not being the right reader for “Life on…

Books Posted onDecember 14, 2016September 16, 2019

The Starlit Wood: New Fairy Tales

Rating: 4 of 5 From the Introduction: “From the woods to the stars, join us on eighteen extraordinary journeys into unexpected territories, uncharted lands, and…

Books Posted onOctober 11, 2016

Roses and Rot by Kat Howard

Rating: 4 of 5 Synopsis: “Imogen and her sister Marin escape their cruel mother to attend a prestigious artists’ retreat, but soon learn that living…

Books Posted onAugust 21, 2016

Opal by Kristina Wojtaszek

Rating: 4.5 of 5 Synopsis: “[A] retwisting of the classic Snow White tale in which the daughter of a snow owl must find her own…

Books Posted onMarch 6, 2015

The Coachman Rat by David Henry Wilson

Rating: 4 of 5 Certainly as gruesome as any tale by the Brothers Grimm, maybe even more so. Filled with melancholy and misanthropy. NOT for…

Books Posted onJanuary 25, 2015

Wolves and Witches: A Fairy Tale Collection

Rating: 4 of 5 “Witches have stories too. So do mermaids, millers’ daughters, princes (charming or otherwise), even big bad wolves. They may be a…

Books Posted onJanuary 11, 2015

Snow White Red-Handed by Maia Chance

Rating: 4.5 of 5 It’s Germany, 1867. A twenty-something American woman, working as a lady’s maid, fights to exonerate her best friend, who has been…

Books Posted onJuly 27, 2014

The Glass Casket by McCormick Templeman

Rating: 4 of 5 An entertaining fairytale-inspired dark fantasy! The Glass Casket surprised me – I did not expect to discover (for the most part)…

Posts navigation

Older posts

Recent Posts

  • April – December 2020 Wrap-Up
  • March 2020 Wrap-Up
  • February 2020 Wrap-Up
  • Unconventional Love Stories, Movie Edition – Take 1
  • January 2020 Wrap-Up
  • Top 5 Books Read in 2019
  • Top 5 Movies Watched in 2019
  • December 2019 Wrap-Up
  • November 2019 Wrap-Up
  • October 2019 Wrap-Up

Recent Tweets

My Tweets
© 2023 Leah Saylor-Abney. All Rights Reserved.
Theme by Design Lab