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Leife Shallcross

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Fantasy, Horror, Science Fiction

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Leife Shallcross’s first novel, The Beast’s Heart, a "luxuriously magical retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale", will be published by Hodder & Stoughton in May 2018. She is also the author of several short stories, including Pretty Jennie Greenteeth, which won the 2016 Aurealis Award for Best Young Adult Short Story. Leife has a bit of a thing for fairy tales, and is particularly inspired by those characters that tend to fall into the cracks of the usual stories. She can be found online at leifeshallcross.com and on Twitter @leioss. ...more

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	The Beast's Heart 3.66 avg rating — 3,233 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The End Has Come (The Apocalypse Triptych, #3) by John Joseph Adams (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charlie Jane Anders (Goodreads Author), Megan Arkenberg (Goodreads Author) 3.88 avg rating — 1,459 ratings — published 2015 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Strange Little Girls by Camilla Bruce (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liv Lingborn (Editor), Terra LeMay (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Next by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Robert Porteous (Editor), Martin Livings (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Winds of Change by Elizabeth Fitzgerald (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Zena Shapter (Goodreads Author), Donna Maree Hanson (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Never Never Land by Mitchell Akhurst (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Phillip Berrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Ian McHugh (Editor) 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Use Only as Directed by Simon Petrie (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Edwina Harvey (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Stephen Dedman (Goodreads Author) 3.75 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unnatural Order by Lyss Wickramasinghe (Goodreads Author), Alexander Hardison (Goodreads Author), Louise Pieper (Goodreads Author) 4.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2020 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Hand of Knaves by Leife Shallcross (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Chris Large (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Eugen Bacon (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aurealis #74 by Dirk Strasser (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Leife Shallcross (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Imogen Cassidy 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Leife Shallcross voted for She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor, #1) as Best Debut Novel in the Final Round of the 2021 Goodreads Choice Awards. Cast Your Vote
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“Enchantments and dreams: I suspect they are made of the same stuff. They each beguile the mind and confuse the senses with wonder and strangeness so all that was familiar becomes freakish, and the most bizarre of things intimate and natural. For the longest time after the curse fell, I did not know if I was a beast who dreamed of being a man, or a man who dreamed he was a beast.”
― Leife Shallcross, The Beast's Heart

tags: beauty-and-the-beast, curses, dreams, enchantments, fairytales, leife-shallcross, magic, the-beast-s-heart

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“I have always been yours”
― Leife Shallcross, The Beast's Heart

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“There is always a way to break a curse.”
― Leife Shallcross, The Beast's Heart

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