Reviews and Blog Posts: fairy tale retelling

Strands of bronze and gold

by Jane Nickerson

DPL Rating:
4

Welcome to Wyndriven Abbey. 

It is 1855 and Sophia has just received a surprising letter from her godfather.  It is an invitation to join him at Wyndriven Abbey, deep in the heart of antebellum Mississippi.  The fine nature of the invitation promises more opportunities than her current poverty-stricken situation would allow,...

Ash

by Malinda Lo

DPL Rating:
5

Ash's mother died when she was young, and after her father remarries, she loses him to illness, too. In a world where the king's philosophers try to move people away from their belief in fairies and Wood magic, Ash turns to this other world to escape from her stepmother and...

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