Author: Rosie Hewlett
Rating: 3/5
Medea, a princess of Colchis, is capable of performing magic. Unfortunately, pretty much everyone takes advantage of it.
Spoilers ahead.
Tag: retelling
Thornhedge
Author: T. Kingfisher
Rating: 5/5
In which Sleeping Beauty is asleep for good, let’s-keep-the-world-safe reasons.
Spoilers ahead.
In the Lives of Puppets
Author: T. J. Klune
Rating: 3/5
21-year-old Victor Lawson has been brought up by robots/androids. He finds a most curious android in the Scrap Yard that dredges up past horrors.
Spoilers ahead. Continue reading “In the Lives of Puppets”
Kaikeyi
Author: Vaishnavi Patel
Rating: 3/5
Kaikeyi is remembered as Rama’s evil stepmother who got him banished from Ayodhya. This is her story.
Spoilers ahead.
Elektra
Author: Jennifer Saint
Rating: 3/5
The Trojan war and what happened next with Clytemnestra, Cassandra and Elektra!
Spoilers ahead.
A Thousand Ships
Author: Natalie Haynes
Rating: 3/5
Calliope, the muse, narrates stories of the Trojan War from the women’s POV for an unnamed poet, talking about Helen of Troy, Hecabe, Penelope, Oenone and Briseis.
Spoilers ahead.
An Arrow to the Moon
Author: Emily X.R. Pan
Rating: 2/5
Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review!
Hunter Yee has had a perfect aim for as long as he can remember but literally everything in his life has gone off-course. Luna Chang feels stifled by her parents’ expectations and wants to bend the rules in the card game she’s been dealt. When the two teenagers’ paths meet, romance blossoms and strange truths are upended.
Spoilers ahead.
Snow & Rose
Author: Emily Winfield Martin
Rating: 3/5
Snow and Rose are forced to move into a cottage in the woods with their mother when their father goes missing. Interesting stuff happens.
Spoilers ahead.
Earnestly Eccentric 