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Top Ten Fairytale Retellings I Love

The Twelve Dancing Princesses

As retold in Entwined by Heather Dixon.
(which is only like my most favouritest book EVER!)

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East of the Sun, West of the Moon

 

As retold in A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas

“It’s based on Beauty and the Beast!”

Well, actually, no, it’s not. It’s much more closely based on very similar Norwegian tale called East of the Sun And West of the Moon. See, fairytales are classified according to type, and East of the Sun And West of the Moon is classified  as a ‘searching for a lost husband’ type, whereas the focus on Beauty and the Beast is the animal-like nature of the groom and his transformation from monster to human.

Tamlin isn’t particularly Beast-like – he’s preternaturally handsome, and has nothing but good intentions towards Fayre. A Beast needs to not only be ugly on the outside, so that the Beauty can look past his Beastliness, but be ugly on the inside, and turn human due to the Beauty’s patience and love. A Beast who is not Beat-like on the outside or the inside is not a Beast, but the bear from East of the Sun And West of the Moon. Anyway, Tamlin is kidnapped by another woman who desires him, which also happens in East of the Sun And West of the Moon, not Beauty and the Beast. So don’t be tricked or disappointed when you find out A Court of Thorns and Roses is in fact nothing like Beauty and the Beast except for the same initial set-up: a male imprisons a female because she owes him something, which is shared by both stories.

and Ice by Sarah Beth Durst

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 Beauty and the Beast

As retold in Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

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 Cinderella

As retold in Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Ember by Bettie Sharpe

and Ash by Malinda Lo

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Rapunzel

 As retold in The Rapunzel Dilemma by Jennifer Kloester

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 The Swan Princess

As cleverly mashed up with Robin Hood and retold in The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest by Melanie Dickerson

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 Grim

There are four short stories in the anthology Grim I absolutely adored, so this is counting as my tenth entry:

• Figment (Puss in Boots) by Jeri Smith-Ready
• Beast/Beast (Beauty and the Beast) by Tessa Gratton
• The Brothers Piggett (The Three Little Pigs) by Julie Kagawa
• Better (The Pied Piper) by Shaun David Hutchinson

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There are a WHOLE BUNCH of fairytale retellings I’m planning on reading. I’ve got a huge collection. That being said, please feel free to suggest any princess or fairytale (or Shakespeare/classic literature) retellings you think I might enjoy!

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