Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, “Cannot a Beast be tamed?”” A Court of Thorn and Roses by Sarah J. When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage. She is thin and awkward it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. love’s a real beast: Beauty and the Beast and similar tales. May your reading live happily ever after!īlurbs come from Goodreads unless otherwise noted. I love to read the fairy tale before or after I’ve read the retelling, and I’ve tried to make it easy for you to do the same. I’ve linked to the dominant fairy tales in each theme in the subheading, and linked to the other, similar fairy tales by each title. Ultimately, I decided to organize around themes. I struggled a bit with the best way to organize the list. Even with cutting those, however, I still had to omit some books that I love! I plan to make a separate children’s list at some point of middle grade and picture book retellings, which I also love. To cut down on what would’ve been a massive list (to make a slightly less massive list?), I decided to include only YA and Adult retellings.

Obviously, I have a bit of an obsessions. I had more than 200 books marked as such, and I’ve only been on Goodreads for a few years. When I started researching for this list, I went to Goodreads to see which books I’d marked as fairytale retellings.

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