This book broke me! As beautifully written as the first, The Rose & the Dagger picks up days after the tumultuous ending of The Wrath and the Dawn. Shazi has been taken by Tariq to his outpost at the Badawi camp, Khalid struggles to rebuild his city, and war is coming. If they are to […]
Growing up, I was always fascinated by Arabian Nights and Aladdin and of course the mysterious Scheherazade or Shahrazad. I watched so many cartoons and retellings that I lost count! So when I first stumbled across The Wrath & the Dawn, it is no wonder I bought it immediately. Sad to say though, it sat […]
Happy Wednesday y’all! This week I’m eagerly waiting on Red Wolf by . This is a retelling of Red Riding Hood with one big twist: the girl is the wolf. I personally am super excited to read this one. It sounds just like my kind of read: a darker, twisted retelling of the original story […]
Happy Wednesday y’all! This week I’m eagerly waiting on Six Crimson Cranes by . I absolutely loved Lim’s Spin the Dawn so I’m that much more excited for this one. Six Crimson Cranes is inspired by the story The Wild Swans and steeped in Asian culture and mythology. I cannot wait to see what Lim […]
Go the Distance by is the latest installment in Disney’s . This time the story focuses on one of my favorites, Hercules, and twists the story at the end of the tale. What if Hercules wasn’t allowed to become human to live with Meg? Instead, what if the gods sent Meg on her own quest […]
Return to Enchantia and meet the Glass Queen in this second installment of ‘s series . I devoured this book! I really enjoyed The Evil Queen, and truth be told, I wasn’t sure how the sequel would live up. However, I am here to tell you that The Glass Queen is a heart-stopping addition to […]
The Evil Queen by has been on my radar since it first hit shelves in 2019. I love fairy tale retellings, and I especially love the anti-hero stories, you know the stories about the villain. That is one-hundred percent this story! The Evil Queen twists everything you thought you knew about Snow White and turns […]
This is the fairytale retelling I didn’t know I needed! Promises and Pixie Dust by , who are quickly becoming one of my favorite author duos, is a sweet, standalone retelling of Thumbelina and included in the anthology Enchanted Kingdoms. Following the story of Lina and Edrich, Promises and Pixie Dust explores the world from […]
It is no secret that I love retellings, and this book exceeded all of my expectations! Tin by is a substantially dark retelling of one of my favorites, The Wizard of Oz. Set roughly ten years after Dorothy returns to Kansas, Oz is in ruin. The fae who guided Dorothy as a child have gone […]
Of Beasts and Vengeance by is the sequel to Of Thorns and Beauty and picks up right where the first left off. There is more of everything in this book: more Zaina, more Einar, more action, more romance, just more! Of Beasts and Vengeance takes the reader on a redemption story that shows how love […]