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Fairy Tale Retellings For Adults

Enjoy these retellings and reimaginings and keep an eye out for part 2 of this list coming soon.

Fairy tale retellings for adults. So many of these stories are so inventive and we bow at the creative genius of all the authors capable of pulling them off. Fairy tales are often viewed as childish or only for children but the books on this list are for grown ups with a taste for fairy tales myths and magic. From author christina june comes a new young adult novel everywhere you want to be a modern retelling of the red riding hood story tilly castillo thought she lost her chance to be a contemporary dancer but when a summer job in new york city.

In the collection cinderella runs off with the fairy godmother instead of the prince snow white wakes up with her own damn desire and belle who thought she could be the one to change the beast learns that beasts like people don t change. It might be the essence of the fairy tale remolded to tell a different kind of story. Old tales in new skins by emma donoghue.