Or; Til Piggybacks On Sera’s review of Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best My plan for this month was to review Stars, Hide Your Fires by Jessica Mary Best, a Cinderella story set in space where Cinderella is a pickpocket using the ball as cover to rob from the rich and give to the people who wantRead More
An Extremely Queer and Ghostly Cinderella Retelling: Cinder House by Freya Marske Review
Freya Marske fans, mark your calendars for October 7, when her new novella Cinder House comes out. It’s a Cinderella retelling, which I am always a fan of, with some fun fresh twists that left me enthralled. It’s a quick read, perfect for a cozy afternoon in front of your own hearth. In Cinder House, the titular Ella isRead More
Rachel Friars reviews Cinderella is Dead by Kalynn Bayron
Kalynn Bayron’s Cinderella is Dead is the queer fairy-tale retelling we needed in 2020. Bayron’s novel is doing amazing things for queer fiction, fantasy, and YA. If there’s anything we need more of, it’s books like this, and more from Bayron herself. It’s been a long time since we’ve seen a Cinderella with queer girls.Read More
Mary reviews Cinders by Cara Malone
Since she first moved to Grimm Falls, Cyn Robinson has lived in the shadow of her stepmother’s disapproval, her stepbrother’s resentment, and her father’s inability to fully accept her mother’s death. She has also lived with the unrequited love for Grimms Falls royalty, Marigold Grimm. For a long time now, Mari has been trying toRead More
Genevra Littlejohn reviews Cinder Ella by S.T Lynn
Fairy tales are comforting because we know how they’re going to go. These days, with the advent of modern fantasy, there might be a lot of changes to the incidentals. Maybe the Prince is a marine biologist. Maybe the Evil Stepmother is a media mogul in NYC. Maybe it’s set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, andRead More
Guest Lesbrarian: Emily
For Once, Being Gay Isn’t the Problem Most lesbian literature to date, it seems, details the common struggles of coming out and of dealing with the consequences of being a homosexual in a heterosexual world. Not Ash, the new teen novel by former afterellen.com editor Malinda Lo. A revisionist Cinderella novel complete with pagan holidaysRead More