January 7, 2017 | jonesw
What happens when you re-enter the world of your favorite fairy tale? Each of these titles puts a new twist on a classic like Cinderella, Snow White, and more.
Fairy Tale: "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Fairy Tale: "Beauty and the Beast" by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve
Presents a modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Fairy Tale: "Cinderella" by Charles Perrault
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
Fairy Tale: "The Snow Queen" by Hans Christian Andersen
When her boyfriend disappears with a mysterious girl, seventeen-year-old Ginny leaves her hometown of Atlanta and fights wolves, escapes thieves, and braves the cold to rescue him.
Fairy Tale: "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm
Rachelle must protect the king's bastard son while searching for the weapons that will save her world from endless night.
Fairy Tale: "Rumpelstiltskin" by Brothers Grimm
Charlotte Miller has always scoffed at talk of a curse on her family's woolen mill, which holds her beloved small town together. But after her father's death, the bad luck piles up: departing workers, impossible debts, an overbearing uncle. Then a stranger named Jack Spinner offers a tempting proposition: He can turn straw into gold thread, for the small price of her mother's ring. As Charlotte is drawn deeper into her bargains with Spinner-and a romance with the local banker-she must unravel the truth of the curse on the mill and save the community she's always called home.
Fairy Tale: "The Frog Prince" by Brothers Grimm
When Sunday Woodcutter, the youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week, kisses an enchanted frog, he transforms back into Rumbold, the crown prince of Arilland-- a man Sunday's family despises.
Fairy Tale: "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Brothers Grimm
Confined to their dreary castle while mourning their mother's death, Princess Azalea and her eleven sisters join The Keeper, who is trapped in a magic passageway, in a nightly dance that soon becomes nightmarish.
Fairy Tale: "Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault
| Jade was only a little girl when the earthquake struck. Before her eyes, half of New York City disappeared, replaced by a village that seemed torn out of a storybook. Horses and carriages. Cobblestone streets. A towering castle. And, above all, a queen with the magical ability to strip emotions away. |
Fairy Tale: "The Twelve Dancing Princesses" by Brothers Grimm
When Petunia, youngest of the dancing princesses, is ambushed by bandits in wolf masks on her way to visit an elderly neighbor, the line between enemies and friends becomes blurred as she and her sisters get a chance to end their family's curse once and for all.
Fairy Tale: "Snow White" by Brothers Grimm
When her father, the duke, decides to remarry in the hopes of producing an heir to the throne, Jessica must learn to cope with her jealous and evil stepmother, but she flees to London after the situation becomes dangerous.
Fairy Tale: "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen
After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
Fairy Tale: "Hansel and Gretel" by Brothers Grimm
When the owner of a candy shop molds magical treats that instill confidence, bravery, and passion, eighteen-year-old Gretchen's haunted childhood memories of her twin sister's abduction by a witch-like monster begin to fade until girls start vanishing at the annual chocolate festival.
Fairy Tale: "Rapunzel" by Brothers Grimm
When Rachel was taken to live in a tower by a woman she calls Mama, she was excited. She felt like a princess in a castle. But many years later, Rachel knows her palace is really a prison, and begins to plan her escape. She is encouraged by the speed with which her golden hair has been growing. It's gotten long enough to reach the ground. And she's begun dreaming of a green-eyed man. Could he be out there in the world? Is he coming to save her? Or will she find a way to save herself?