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Title A Mirror Mended Author Alix E Harrow Series Fractured Tales #2 Book #1 is A Spindle Splintered  (a Sleeping Beauty retelling) Content Warning Implied cannibalism of children, kidnapping of a child, terminal illness, LGBTQ+ rep, fade-to-black sex scenes, non-consensual kiss Goodreads Synopsis A Mirror Mended is the next installment in USA Today bestselling author Alix E. Harrow's Fractured Fables series. Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty, is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you’ve rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you’ve gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia’s beginning to think she can't handle one more princess, she glances into a mirror and sees another face looking back at her: the shockingly gorgeous face of evil, asking for he

Title The Girl and the Seven Thieves Author Olivia Snowe Illustrator Michelle Lamoreaux Content Warning Attempted murder, non-consensual kiss Goodreads Synopsis Eira and her stepmother don't get along, but she never expected to be left in a New York City alley. When seven thieves find her, she'll have to try to trust them. ( Goodreads ) Story Review *** (3 stars out of 5) This book is a Middle Grade retelling of Snow White. For my taste it's a little formulaic and far too short to really develop any real sense of the characters. I also think it wraps up the evil stepmother much too neatly. I did like the idea of the thieves, since they also have a reason to want to hide away from society. The addition of actual magic kind of took me out of the setting, so I wish that part had been handled differently. *Spoiler Warning* Do not read beyond this point if you have not read the book and you care about spoilers.

Title My Plain Jane Authors Cynthia Hand , Brodi Ashton , and Jodi Meadows Content Warning Abuse and death of children Goodreads Synopsis You may think you know the story. After a miserable childhood, penniless orphan Jane Eyre embarks on a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall. There, she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester. Despite their significant age gap (!) and his uneven temper (!!), they fall in love—and, Reader, she marries him. (!!!) Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and one orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Brontë, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood are about to be drawn together on the most epic ghost hunt this side of Wuthering Heights. ( Goodreads ) Story Review ***** (5 stars out of 5) A wonderful retelling of Jane Eyre with ghosts. The basic premise is that Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre are friends who both live

Title In the Quick Author Kate Hope Day Content Warning None Goodreads Synopsis June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin grueling astronaut training at the National Space Program. Younger by two years than her classmates at Peter Reed, the school on campus named for her uncle, she flourishes in her classes but struggles to make friends and find true intellectual peers. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station—and a hard-won sense of belonging—but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle’s fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years old, and while the rest of the world seems to have forgotten the crew, June alone has evidence that makes her believe they are still alive. She seeks out James, her uncle’s former protégé, also brilliant, also difficult, who has been trying to discover why Inquiry’s fuel cells fai

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë, painted by Evert A. Duyckinck, based on a drawing by George Richmond, 1873, University of Texas, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Jane Eyre is a novel originally published on October 16, 1847 by English writer Charlotte Brontë , under the pen name "Currer Bell." ( Wikipedia ) Charlotte was one of six children, five girls and one boy. After the death of their mother, the oldest four girls, including Charlotte, were sent to the Clergy Daughters' School, where the oldest two girls died of tuberculosis. Their father brought the other two girls back home. Once she had completed her education, Charlotte briefly worked as a governess. She then tried to open a boarding school with her two remaining sisters, a project they later abandoned. All three sisters went on to publish under their respective Bell pen names. Charlotte's brother and sisters died in rapid succession while she was working on her third novel. Charlotte married, but died whi

Title Snow, Glass, Apples Author Neil Gaiman Illustrator Colleen Doran Content Warning Not safe for children: graphic depictions of sex, nudity, gore, implied incest, sex with a minor, necrophilia Goodreads Synopsis A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran. A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her monstrous stepdaughter and determined to repel this creature and save her kingdom from a world where happy endings aren't so happily ever after. From the Hugo, Bram Stoker, Locus, World Fantasy, Nebula Award-winning and Sunday Times-bestselling writer Neil Gaiman (American Gods) comes this graphic novel adaptation by Colleen Doran (Troll Bridge). ( Goodreads ) Story Review ***** (5 stars out of 5) This is an extremely dark (not safe for children) retelling of Snow White, where the stepmother is cast as the storyteller and Snow White as a vampire who uses seduction as a means to drink blood. I really enjoyed how plausibl