Happily Ever After Cafe discussion

Great, Sue! let us know if its good!

Buddy read anyone??

This one was very nice. It's a retelling of Beauty & the Beast.

Buddy read of "Unenchanted,An Unfortunate Fairytale"??

Oh I loved Unenchanted. That was a great book. Hope you enjoy. ^_^

I am truly enjoying it!!!! Thank you!! :)

Unenchanted sounds a great book! I'll add it to my list, after Jennifer Crusie's The Cinderella Deal. Thanks for the tip!

Looks like an intriguing premise, Sue. I can't read it now; however, as Mod, I can set it up for you as a "buddy read" and see if you get any takers. If you like.

Finished reading the other day.

This one was lovely , finished it last night.

Neat, Brenda and Kari. I'm having a harder time with this challenge than I though I would. I think I only have one book towards it.

I only have three so far but I did get me a few books I need to read for it.

I heard of a lot of books that I want to read for it, just having a hard time actually getting the books to read them!

Yes, does buying books for the challenge count? LOL!

Well, it should!

Can you increase or decrease levels at later date? I'm torn between Ogre and Eye of Newt. I'd like to join. I love fairy tale retellings.

Yes, Gigi. We are women (most of us, anyway) and we can change our minds! lol

LOL!!! And, I change mine often. LOL

Thank you! I'll post once I know what I'm going to start reading. Yayy!!

Just finished reading which fits this challenge nicely.



UnEnchantedsounds like it may be good, I think I'll add it to my list for this challenge. I need more ideas of books for this one. I don't have many of this type of story.

Melissa, I've just started reading The Cinderella Deal, by Jennifer Crusie, which was recommended by Debs. Am loving it!! I'm British, and Jennifer Crusie isn't so well known in the UK, so was thrilled to discover her here. If you'd like another idea, my novel The Silk Romance is a Cinderella retelling.
I have UnEnchantednext on my TBR pile. I LOVE fairtale retellings and am so glad to have joined this group!

Thank you for the ideas! They both sound good!

I just went to buy UnEnchantedfor this challenge, and found it's actually free on Amazon. A nice surprise! Thought I'd share the news on this thread. Also, if you're interested in giveaways, my Cinderella retelling The Silk Romanceis featured on Ravencraft's Romance Realm. All you have to do is name your favourite fairy tale for a chance to win! http://ravencraftrealm.blogspot.co.uk...

Great, thanks, Helena!

I enjoyed I like the twist on the Grimm family it took.

I'm halfway through UnEnchanted, Melissa, and I'm enjoying it. I like the bit where all the heroine's clothes turn red, forcing her to be Red Riding Hood. I wish the writing had been better edited (but that's just me reading with my writer's hat on!)It's a good twist on the fairy tales.

Thought you all might like to know that The Fall of the Misanthrope: I bitch, therefore I am (a Cinderella retelling by a fellow British author) is free on Amazon at the moment. You can read a review of it here: http://areadersreviewblog.com/2013/07...

It sounds funny, and right up my street!

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It was a bit of a f***ked up fairytale but not at naughty as I had hoped it would be!

thanks, Melissa

**snortsnort** Melissa!

was a nice, sweet, and a little naughty read. I liked it.

Thanks, Leslie

Nine short stories retelling fairytales to fit modern times.

Some were really good (Charm & Wolf) some were OK. I had fun reading them.

Thanks, Melissa

You're doing well at this one, Melissa. Good for you.

Lisa Kay wrote: "You're doing well at this one, Melissa. Good for you."

Its a favorite genre of mine so this challenge was right up my alley!

Your welcome Pamela! ^_^

Had a nice rainy day today and I felt just a little bit under the weather so it was the perfect day for a pot of hot tea and this .

It was a fun read perfect for this challenge!

Glad you enjoyed it, Melissa! You are rocking this challenge.

Cool beans! My book made in to a movie book works for this challenge to!

I read that one and saw the movie. Since I saw the movie first, I think I liked it better.

I like the movie better to. The movie was so much more fun than the book was. The book had a more serious tone to it.

Yesterday was a cold, wet rainy day so I decided after finishing my to do list that curling up with a book and a blanket was a good idea. I picked because I like JD Robb. Turns out all the books in the anthology were a twist of a fairy tale.

Taken in Death: Hansel & Gretel
If wishes were horses: Goldilocks & 3 Bears
Beauty Sleeping: Sleeping Beauty
The Christmas Comet: the Little Match Girl
Stroke of Midnight: Cinderella

I love it when a book I already plan to read fits right into a challenge!

cool! And yes, I too love it when it works for a challenge.

Did you read that, Melissa? I think I have it in Mt TBR.

I did read it but it was a weird read for me I liked it when I was reading it but I didn't have any problem putting it down to do other things and wasn't in a hurry to pick it back up again. There were a lot of parts that bogged down but I think that was because it was the first in the series and there was a lot of explaining how the world worked instead of the hero and heroine interacting throughout.

I looked at the 2nd book in the series and it sounds interesting so I added it to my TBR because sometimes I don't like the first books in a series as well as the next ones.

Thanks! I hope to get around to it someday :)

Retelling of The Six Swans, it takes place in medieval Ireland, when Druid and Christian cultures first started to overlap. I really enjoyed it.

Thanks, Melissa!

I just joined the Happily Ever After cafe a few days ago, so I only have 2 months for this challenge.

I wish I knew about this challenge earlier in the year.I guess I am at the troll level this year because I have already read 3 books from the Jenni James Fairytale collection; Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. I also read my fair God Mother which references Cinderella.

I am currently working on reading the Violet Duke Nice Girl to love Series and am waiting for the next Susan Halter novella to come out, so I may not have time to complete a higher level for the challenge.

Hopefully the challenge will continue in 2014 so I can enter at Lady in waiting

**My fair Godmother does shows up in my fairytales 2013 bookshelf but it does not show up as a counted book for the challenge. The entire book is not a retelling but there is a retelling of Cinderella within the story.