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Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Fairytale Retellings I've Read/ Want To Read

It's Tuesday which means that it is time for a Top Ten Tuesday post. This week's topic is ten fairytale retelling I've Read/want to read. The Top Ten Tuesday feature was created by The Broke and the Bookish and more about it can be found here. Let's get started...




Number 10: Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson 

Tiger LilyThis is a retelling of Peter Pan.  














Number 9: Shadows of the Moon by Zoe Marriott


Shadows on the Moon
This is a retelling of Cinderella and Memoirs of a Geisha.












Number 8: The Fairytale Retelling by Jackson Pearce



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Sisters red is a Little Red Riding Hood retelling and is part of the fairytale retelling along with Sweetly which is a retelling of Hansel and Gretel with Fathomless, a retelling of the Little Mermaid and finished with the Cold Spell which is a Snow Queen retelling. 

Number 7: Ash by Melinda Lo

AshAnother retelling of Cinderella on this list but this one I have read and I did enjoy it. This one also has a twist on the Cinderella but features a LGBTQ+ characters in this telling. It was enjoyable but I read it a few years ago. 









Number 6: Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge 

Cruel BeautyThis is called a Beauty and the Beast retelling mixed with Graceling.











Number 5: Alice In Zombieland by Gena Showalter

Alice in Zombieland (White Rabbit Chronicles, #1)If you didn't tell by the title this is a retelling of Alice In Wonderland but with zombies. Need I say more...











Number 4: A Thousands Nights by E.K. Johnson 

A Thousand NightsThe story of a Thousand Nights is that every day he King gets a new wife however if he doesn't like her she will die. I don't know if the story is similar to the orginial but this one does sound interesting. Another retelling is the Wrath and The Dawn








Number 3: Splintered by A.G Howard

Splintered (Splintered, #1)Yet another Alice In Wonderland retelling but this has a twist involved in which I believe that Wonderland is real. 











Number 2: Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)Another Beauty and The Beast retelling but this time with faeries/fey and I am excited to read this. This book has been hyped up by the book bloggers and booktubers so I am scared to read it but hopeful it lives up to the hype...









Number 1: Cinder, Scarlet, Cress and Winter by Marissa Meyer

This series is the overall package, the amazing writing, the enjoyable characters, and plots that link directly to fairy tales. Cinder is a faiytale retelling of Cinderella and Scarlet being a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood and Cress in a retelling of Rapunzel. Winter is a retelling of Snow White and is released later this year. They are not direct retelling as they have a sci-fi twist. This is one of the only series that I have read on this list and I highly recommend you read this.  

What are your favourite fairytale retellings? Please leave them in the comments below.

See you soon, 

Amy

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