So I just finished Kingdom of Sweets by Erika Johansen and I’m in love! It’s marketed as a fantasy but it’d do better in the horror section. So I’d like a book that is dark fairytale retellings but also has substance and does something new and creative with the retelling. So nothing like once upon a broken heart or the caraval series bc I feel like those series have no substance (sorry).
by Itsalyj
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Angela Carter is the queen of dark fairytales imo!
But also:
The Child Thief by Brom
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth
Deathless by Catherine M Valente
The Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
White as Snow by Tabitha Lee
Deerskin by Robin McKinley
Bryony and Roses by T Kingfisher
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik: it’s loosely based on the Rumpelstiltskin fairy tale and definitely has darkness + substance.
Greymist Fair by Francesca Zappia