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"thinks" My book, The Reluctant Godfather, is very clean.... I'm sure I can think of some others...
My instant recommendation is Burning Rose by Hope Ann. A stunning book.
@Allison - TRG is on my TBR!!! I NEEEEEED IT. XD
@Jane - ohmigosh, gimme me Burning Rose!!! ACK. XD
I second Burning Rose, and while i don't know and Peter Pan retellings, Melanie Dickerson's Hagenheim series and K.M. Shea's Timeless Fairytales series are both clean and fun.
I've never heard of Shea's Timeless Fairy Tales - I'll have to look it up! Thanks, Erudessa! :D
TRG is top of my list, of course! Here are a few more: Ella Enchanted was my first exposure to the genre, and it's a good book - though it's usually considered juvenile fic, and it does have plenty of romance and fairytale magic. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale is one of the few YA books I like, and it's a great book and retelling (it has subtle but more serious magic). Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a very unusual and magic-free Cinderella retelling that turns the cliches upside down. Jessica Day George's Princesses of Westfalin trilogy (book one is Princess of the Midnight Ball) has some dark-ish magic, but it's good if you don't mind that (I hesitate to recommend it widely for that reason, but it's less dark than most retellings even though it is a bit dark at points).
Sorry if that sounded like self promotion! Honestly - I'm always on the hunt for clean fairy tale retellings (very hard to find) so I guess we have to write them...
OH - Always Neverland! That is an absolutely darling retelling of Peter Pan - highly recommended.
Allison, I'll gladly promote you if you don't want to promote yourself!! :D But Lila has evidently heard everyone gushing about your book already. ;)
Oh, I know, it's so frustrating and so hard to find good ones! I don't like retellings that are heavy on magic or violence...so there are only a few I like, and half of them are Cinderella. :PPP Argh.
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"thinks" My book, The Reluctant Godfather, is very clean.... I'm sure I can think of some others...
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My instant recommendation is Burning Rose by Hope Ann. A stunning book.
@Allison - TRG is on my TBR!!! I NEEEEEED IT. XD@Jane - ohmigosh, gimme me Burning Rose!!! ACK. XD
I second Burning Rose, and while i don't know and Peter Pan retellings, Melanie Dickerson's Hagenheim series and K.M. Shea's Timeless Fairytales series are both clean and fun.
I've never heard of Shea's Timeless Fairy Tales - I'll have to look it up! Thanks, Erudessa! :D
TRG is top of my list, of course! Here are a few more: Ella Enchanted was my first exposure to the genre, and it's a good book - though it's usually considered juvenile fic, and it does have plenty of romance and fairytale magic. The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale is one of the few YA books I like, and it's a great book and retelling (it has subtle but more serious magic). Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix is a very unusual and magic-free Cinderella retelling that turns the cliches upside down. Jessica Day George's Princesses of Westfalin trilogy (book one is Princess of the Midnight Ball) has some dark-ish magic, but it's good if you don't mind that (I hesitate to recommend it widely for that reason, but it's less dark than most retellings even though it is a bit dark at points).
Sorry if that sounded like self promotion! Honestly - I'm always on the hunt for clean fairy tale retellings (very hard to find) so I guess we have to write them...OH - Always Neverland! That is an absolutely darling retelling of Peter Pan - highly recommended.
Allison, I'll gladly promote you if you don't want to promote yourself!! :D But Lila has evidently heard everyone gushing about your book already. ;)Oh, I know, it's so frustrating and so hard to find good ones! I don't like retellings that are heavy on magic or violence...so there are only a few I like, and half of them are Cinderella. :PPP Argh.
