Tag: retelling
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Review: The Monstrous Dreams of Mr Providence by Daria Schmitt
**I was provided an electronic ARC via the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 3.5 Daria Schmitt presents an adult graphic novel inspired by HP Lovecraft’s “The Strange House High in the Mist” with The Strange Dreams of Mr Providence. Readers follow Providence in his role as caretaker of a park…
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Review: Small Favors by Erin A Craig
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Erin A Craig returns with her small-town horror Small Favors. Readers follow Ellerie Downing, eldest daughter of one of the founding families in Amity Falls. Amity Falls is a small village where neighbors must support one another.…
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Review: The Shrike & the Shadows by Chantal Gadoury and AM Wright
**spoiler alert** **I was provided with an electronic ARC from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Actual rating: 2.5 stars Chantal Gadoury and AM Wright come together in the Hansel and Gretel retelling The Shrike & the Shadows. Hans and Greta’s tale is a dark and twisted version of the fairytale with…
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Review: The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant
4 stars **I was provided an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** Kester Grant’s The Court of Miracles leads readers in a retelling of Les Miserables where Eponine, called Nina, is the star of the show. Nina is a Thief in a France where the criminal underground of the…
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Review: The Midspring Rebellion by Doreen Heron
2 stars ** I was provided with an electronic ARC by the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for honest review.** The Midspring Rebellion by Doreen Heron follows the King of the Fairies, Oberon, as he seeks a vacation in the human world after his wife, Titania, leaves him. There he meets Nick Chandler who is…
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Review: Cursed by Thomas Wheeler
** I was provided an electronic ARC of this book by publisher, Simon & Schuster, through NetGalley in return for an honest review.** Actual rating: 2.5 stars The team of Frank Miller and Thomas Wheeler create a story in “Cursed” where Arthurian legend is retold with sixteen-year-old Nimue in possession of the Sword of Power.…
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