i'd love to read a fantasy series thats a fairytale retelling that maybe isn't YA and doesn't have romance as the main point but can include??
i know ACOTAR is very controversial but at the time i read it it felt so unique and different and i was actually surprised by events whereas all the other fantasy series i read now just feel like romance novels and the whole thing was written for spice. just looking for any recommendations!!! thanks 💙
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*Nettle & Bone* by T. Kingfisher! Totally unique twist on several fairy tales, and the romance is very much a secondary plot line. Really enjoyed Kingfisher’s writing, it’s genuinely funny and clever.Â
Cinder House by Freya Marske
Stardust – Neil Gaiman
Clocktaur Wars – T. Kingfisher
All The Evers After – Danielle Teller
Patricia McKillip – The Changeling Sea , The Book of Atrix Wolfe , Song for the Basilisk , The Tower at Stony Wood , Ombria in Shadow , In the Forests of Serre
Most of these are standalone:
The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine (The Twelve Dancing Princesses)
Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth (Rapunzel) (Forsyth has a few retellings, plus a novel about Wilhelm Grimm’s wife Dortchen Wild)
Daughter of the Forest (Sevenwaters Trilogy) by Juliet Marillier (The Six Swans)
Tam Lin by Pamela Dean
The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy) by Katherine Arden (Russian folktales)
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik (Rumplestiltskin)
Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi (Snow White)
The Crane Wife by Patrick Ness (Japanese folktale)
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (various) (short story collection)
The Complete Tales of Ketzia Gold by Kate Bernheimer (various)
Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser (Cinderella)
In the Vanishers’ Palace by Aliette de Bodard (Beauty and the Beast)
Robin McKinley did TWO retellings of beauty and the beast , about 20 years apart.  I like them both. Beauty and Rose daughter.  She also wrote Deerskin which is a retelling of Donkeyskin.  It’s good but pretty  dark
This Princess Kills Monsters, Little Thieves, and Gilded