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  About Amy Hello, I'm Amy, an aspiring motorsports writer and former blogger.  If you dig deeper enough, you find some very old blog posts, as this started as a book blog, but that's really where I got my start in writing: book reviews, hot book topics and as well as the odd personal essay.  After leaving university, I left the book blog behind, but continued writing and going in the world of social media, writing film reviews and promoting queer cinema, but after a tragic event in my personal life, I quickly discovered Motorsports.  What started as a love for Formula 1, while finally watching the Formula 1 film, Rush, and discovering Formula 1 TikTok, this love soon expanded to everything Formula E, IndyCar, Formula 2, Formula 3, as well as F1 Academy.  I soon found the itch to write come back, with the fast-moving news of motorsport, to the drama, the competition, and the journey of drivers trying to find a race seat. I found that it was the people and storie...
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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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