Waiting on New 2013 Fairy Tale Retellings

ByJen
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The year was 2012 and I was waiting on new 2013 Fairy Tale retellings. 2024 me wants to say there will be SO many to choose from.

 

2024 Update: I did read Of Beast and Beauty in 2013 and here’s my review.

I did not read  Strands of Bronze and Gold.

As the year winds to a close, I’m looking forward to the new books coming out in 2013. It looks like retellings will remain hot in 2013!

Here are two I’m excited about:

 

Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay

 
Expected publication date: July 2013
 
 
 
You might remember how much I enjoyed Stacey Jay’s Juliet Immortal/Romeo Redeemed books. If you missed my review, you can read it here.  So I was super-excited to see that Stacey Jay is doing a retelling of Beauty and the Beast.  

Here’s the Plot  Summary for Of Beast and Beauty

 

In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds. Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe. As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.

 

 

Strands of Bronze and Gold by Jane Nickerson

 
Expected Publication date: March 2013
 
 
When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram’s beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation—on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting—from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi.  Sophie has always longed for a comfortable life, and she finds herself both attracted to and shocked by the charm and easy manners of her overgenerous guardian. But as she begins to piece together the mystery of his past, it is as if a silken net is tightening around her. And as she gathers stories and catches whispers of his former wives—all with hair as red as her own—in the forgotten corners of the abbey, Sophie knows she’s trapped in the passion and danger of de Cressac’s intoxicating world. Glowing strands of romance, mystery, and suspense are woven into this breathtaking debut—a thrilling retelling of the “Bluebeard” fairy tale.

 

Crossing my fingers that I get approved for this one!
 
Are you anxiously waiting for a book? Tell me about it in comments! 

Jen has been blogging about books since 2011. In that time, she has read and reviewed over 1500 books. She loves helping readers find their perfect next read and helping books find their audience.

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  7. I'm anxiously awaiting both of those. They just look amazing, and the covers for both are beautiful. Two fantastic picks this week, Jen.

    Hope you had a great holiday 🙂

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  11. I am on board with both of these books- I love re-imagined fairy tales and myths (although some have been a major let down- Tris and Izzie, I'm looking at you). Very interested in the Blue Beard tale… but I'm staying away from Net Galley until I can learn to only request the books I will actually read and review!

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  12. I've seen Strands of Bronze and Gold popping up on a lot of WoW picks. I'm not familiar with the original fairy tale but it does look good. I hope you get approved Jen!

    Of Beast and Beauty looks great – darker than some of the other retellings.

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