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What are some good Retellings of Fairy Tales in book form?
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- TinaLv 71 year agoFavorite Answer
Goodreads has a long list
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/fairy-tale-re...
My personal recommendation include T Kingfisher - her fairy tale retellings include:
The Seventh Bride, Bryony and Roses, The Raven and the Reindeer
and Ellen Datlow's Fairy Tale Anthologies - the "Snow White, Blood Red" series
and Tanith Lee - Red as Blood (short stories) and "White as Snow" - novel.
- Zac ZLv 71 year ago
The books coming to my mind first are those of Naomi Novik which are also on the list Tina linked to (a thumbs up to her).
There's a series of fairy tales retellings not on that list, the Faery series* by Dennis L. McKiernan . Apparently, each of the novels is an expanded retelling of a fairy tale but they are embedded in one large story arc. I haven't read them so can't say if they're any good.
I did read McKiernan's story "A Tower with No Doors"**, a take on the Rapunzel story which I really liked.
I've recently read the story "Triquetra" by Kirstyn McDermott which is a continuation of Snow White. It's quite dark but good. And freely available on Tor's website: https://www.tor.com/2018/09/05/triquetra-kirstyn-m...
* https://www.goodreads.com/series/41865
** I read it in the anthology "Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy" but it has since been collected in McKiernan's story collection "Strange Reflections" (currently apparently only available as ebook)
- Anonymous1 year ago
The one I read most recently was "Bitter Greens" by Kate Forsyth which I really enjoyed. It's a retelling of Rapunzel weaving the witch's and the girl's points of view along with the story of the French noblewoman who gave us the modern version of the story (and hasn't gotten half the credit she deserved until recently). The author plainly had done a lot of research but she doesn't beat you over the head with it.
If you've not read "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" yet it's a modern classic in the genre.
Still on Cinderella there's "the Coachman Rat" with elements of the pied piper. It's very dark though, so it depends on what you're looking for.