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…
Tag: fairy tale retellings
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…