In light of Tuesday's Armitage lovefest post, I thought it only right to point you to this little gem today. I love it so much I want to hug it. It's not long, but it's guaranteed to brighten your day. Thanks to Larissa for the link!
The first review of the year! Writing this one always feels fresh and hopeful to me and like it may set the tone of my reading year in a way. This was a very good one to start with. And the moral of this story appears to be: I will never tire of Beauty and the Beast retellings. A fact I was not unaware of, but that I am happy to have confirmed once more, this time after reading Brigid Kemmerer's A Curse So Dark and Lonely. My favorites tend to run the Robin McKinley way, with the most recent favorite retelling being Meagan Spooner's wonderful Hunted. But this is the first retelling of my favorite fairy tale that I've read that includes both traditional fantasy and modern contemporary settings. I didn't think it could work. Or, at least, I was skeptical that the one would interfere with the other or that the different dialogues might clash. How happy I was to find that the whole thing played out seamlessly. How happy I am to have discovered Brigid Kemmerer's writin…
I enjoyed that very much!
ReplyDeletePerfect! Love it. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThat was awesome. Someone is a genious.
ReplyDeleteLani, I'm glad.
ReplyDeleteMedical Librarian, my pleasure. I couldn't resist, once I read it. :)
Amy, my thoughts exactly. Genius!
Those devils! JT and FD are rather similar, aren't they? My heart belongs to Thornton, however, and his many coloured cravats.
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