bibliophilecats:abby-doodle-books:thewizard-ofbooks:Okay quick thing about what this is…Basic

bibliophilecats:abby-doodle-books:thewizard-ofbooks:Okay quick thing about what this is…Basically it’s to learn about books in a specific category you may have never heard of, from a bunch of different people! So just reblog with your favorite book that fits with the topic below! Even better if you write why you like it!I’m so excited! Lets do this :) !Topic #2: RetellingThis can be anything from a fairy tale to a retelling of classic literature!My recommendation is The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury!It’s a retelling of Aladdin with the genie as a woman. The writing was really lovely and I think I read it in about a day! This is still a love story but not in the way you remember Aladdin! (do I use too many exclamation points? sorry not sorry cause I’m excited!!!) This was the last book that I rated 5 stars and I highly recommend it :)I love retellings! Probably my favorite sub-genre. My top picks, in no particular order:-Everland (Peter Pan)- The Lunar Chronicles (Cinderella, Red Riding Hood, Rapunzel, and Snow White)- My Lady Jane (AU of the famous nine day queen of England where she gets a happy ending and also there is magic and silliness in the vein of The Princess Bride)- The Wrath and the Dawn (1001 Arabian Nights)“The fairy godmother” by Mercedes Lackey (adult fantasy romance). Starts out as a Cinderella retelling and then just turns a lot of fairy tales upside down. First book in a series of 6 (currently). Some are very good, some a bit too predictable - but they are always very enjoyable (other favourite from the series “The snow queen”).I do love a good retelling! Robin McKinley’s were very important to me at different moments in my life. When I was eight, I loved Beauty, and its heroine who unapologetically loved horses and mugs of tea and ancient languages and “men’s” work. When I was twelve, I loved The Outlaws of Sherwood, with its valiant, creative protagonists banding together to make their world better, loving each other radically. When I was seventeen, I loved Deerskin (like the original, cw: rape, cw: incest) for what it taught me about consent, and boundaries, and resilience.I also spent a solid 5 (or 7, or 10?) years of my life reading any Arthurian retelling I could lay my hands on. This involved putting down several really badly written books unfinished. Favorites remain Rosemary Sutcliff’s achingly beautiful YA trilogy that retells Malory (The Sword and the Circle, The Light Beyond the Forest, The Road to Camlann) and Mary Stewart’s Merlin trilogy, with its rich imagining of post-Roman Britain. -- source link

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