Love that you mentioned Juliet Marillier! Robin McKinley has several fairytale retellings, highly recommend Rose Daughter and Spindle’s End. Also recommend East by Edith Pattou.
Thank you 😊 The Bear and The Nightingale is fabulous! Highly recommended if you enjoy slower paced historical fantasy. Thanks for watching and commenting 🧡
i loved nettle & bone and silver in the wood! haven't read the second book yet but it's on my shelves somewhere :') 'in the house in the dark of the woods' by laird hunt is the perfect grownup fairytale, it's beautifully creepy and has that same rhythm and repetition that the traditional tales have. joanne harris' child ballad tales are great too, i've read 3 but not sure if she's written more (pocketful of crows, orfeia and blue salt road). kirsty logan's 'things we say in the dark' and julia armfield's 'salt slow' are some short story collections that reminded me of angela carter's fairytale retellings 🖤 hope you're having a lovely september 🥰
@@AnnaShikari Ooh thank you so much for the recommendations! I like the sound of a creepy story that has the same rhythm/repetition of a traditional fairytale! I hope you're having a good September too 🎃🧡
Evening Ellie, I hope you're well. I love Silver in the Wood, it's such a wonderful story. One day I want to go and sit in a forest and read it. A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne Harris is pretty good, it's based on folklore and some pagan beliefs (The Triple Goddess) and the story is split into months of the year so we have some beautiful descriptions of the land and seasons.
Wonderful Recommendations! Nettle and Bone has been on my radar,. Juniper Thorn sounds like a great horror read. The original Grimm Fairy Tales were so dark. I own that copy of Faerie Tales...Grim and Gruesome, also still need to read the book. I would highly recommend The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly. It is a fairy-tale retelling marketed as YA but is in fact very dark and gruesome in places. Another dark one is Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist. Hope you have a great spooky season. 🎃
Thanks Cliff. I would say "Nettle and Bone" is more fantasy than horror. There are some creepy bits, but it's mostly a fun fairytale-like story. I've added "The Book of Lost Things" to my TBR! It sounds fab. I hope you have a great spooky season too 👻
I absolutely love fairytale-esque stories. I have recently discovered Francis Hardinge and she has some amazing stories. She is labelled as a middle grade/ ya author, but she is definitely suitable for adults. Infact, I wou.d question whether some of the themes are suitable for children as they are quite dark and complex. And there is no romance. My favourite of hers that I have read is Unraveller, definitely fairytale-esque and a great adventure.
I love them too! Thanks for the recommendation. I will look up Francis Hardinge. I don't mind middle grade/ YA if they have more complex themes. It's just, in my experience, a lot of YA fairytale retellings have a heavy focus on romance. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy romance when I'm in the mood, but I like books that have a little more depth and complexity to the characters/storyline.
@@bibbidibobbidibooks Yes, I'm the same with ya. I love a good slow burn romance, that isn't the main plot of the story. One preferably without teenage angst and one whre the characters have a lot more going on than their love lives 😆 Luckily Francis Hardinge s books don't have romance as they are also suitable for ( older) children.
Wow! Finally someone recommending exactly what I need. I don't read romance or extreme v!olence. I just checked out Francis Hardinge (never heard before) and I loved deeplight by the blurb of it. Added it to my cart immediately! Could you please recommend some more fantasies without romance and extreme v!olence? Thanks for your recommendation. From India ☺️👍🏽
I can recommend Christina Henry's Alice series (Alice/Red Queen/Looking Glass) and her standalones 'The Girl in Red', 'Lost Boy' and 'The Mermaid.' Also anthologies edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane; 'Cursed' and it'd follow-up 'Twice Cursed' as well as 'Wonderland' (A dark Alice in Wonderland anthology and 'The Other Side of Never' (A dark Peter Pan anthology).
I read You Let Me In recently based on your recommendation, and really enjoyed it. I will definitely look into some of these. You might like The Green Man of Eshwood Hall, by Jacob Kerr.
I don't know if this counts as a YA, but I don't think so. I loved it: Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly. Other books by her too. Also Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino. I loved it so much and I'm upset it has such a low rating.
Love that you mentioned Juliet Marillier! Robin McKinley has several fairytale retellings, highly recommend Rose Daughter and Spindle’s End. Also recommend East by Edith Pattou.
Thank you for the recommendations 🧡
Great recommendations! The Bear and The Nightingale sounds soo good!
Thank you 😊 The Bear and The Nightingale is fabulous! Highly recommended if you enjoy slower paced historical fantasy. Thanks for watching and commenting 🧡
i loved nettle & bone and silver in the wood! haven't read the second book yet but it's on my shelves somewhere :') 'in the house in the dark of the woods' by laird hunt is the perfect grownup fairytale, it's beautifully creepy and has that same rhythm and repetition that the traditional tales have. joanne harris' child ballad tales are great too, i've read 3 but not sure if she's written more (pocketful of crows, orfeia and blue salt road). kirsty logan's 'things we say in the dark' and julia armfield's 'salt slow' are some short story collections that reminded me of angela carter's fairytale retellings 🖤 hope you're having a lovely september 🥰
@@AnnaShikari Ooh thank you so much for the recommendations! I like the sound of a creepy story that has the same rhythm/repetition of a traditional fairytale! I hope you're having a good September too 🎃🧡
I’m currently reading Nettle and Bone. Loving it so far 😄 Definitely want to try the first book you recommended
Yay, I'm glad you're enjoying "Nettle and Bone" Thanks for watching and commenting 🧡
Evening Ellie, I hope you're well.
I love Silver in the Wood, it's such a wonderful story. One day I want to go and sit in a forest and read it.
A Pocketful of Crows by Joanne Harris is pretty good, it's based on folklore and some pagan beliefs (The Triple Goddess) and the story is split into months of the year so we have some beautiful descriptions of the land and seasons.
Hi John 😊
Hope you are well.
Thanks for the recommendation! I love the idea of a book that's split into months of the year.
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Wonderful Recommendations! Nettle and Bone has been on my radar,. Juniper Thorn sounds like a great horror read. The original Grimm Fairy Tales were so dark. I own that copy of Faerie Tales...Grim and Gruesome, also still need to read the book. I would highly recommend The Book Of Lost Things by John Connolly. It is a fairy-tale retelling marketed as YA but is in fact very dark and gruesome in places. Another dark one is Faerie Tale by Raymond E Feist. Hope you have a great spooky season. 🎃
Thanks Cliff. I would say "Nettle and Bone" is more fantasy than horror. There are some creepy bits, but it's mostly a fun fairytale-like story.
I've added "The Book of Lost Things" to my TBR! It sounds fab.
I hope you have a great spooky season too 👻
Great video Ellie. I love a retelling and there are several on your list that I hadn’t heard of!
Hello! How are you?
Aw thank you, I'm glad you found some new recommendations 🧡
Loved this video Ellie.😊😊
Thank you. I hope you are enjoying spooky season 👻🧡
@@bibbidibobbidibooks my favourite time of the year.😊😊
I absolutely love fairytale-esque stories. I have recently discovered Francis Hardinge and she has some amazing stories. She is labelled as a middle grade/ ya author, but she is definitely suitable for adults. Infact, I wou.d question whether some of the themes are suitable for children as they are quite dark and complex. And there is no romance. My favourite of hers that I have read is Unraveller, definitely fairytale-esque and a great adventure.
I love them too! Thanks for the recommendation. I will look up Francis Hardinge. I don't mind middle grade/ YA if they have more complex themes. It's just, in my experience, a lot of YA fairytale retellings have a heavy focus on romance. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy romance when I'm in the mood, but I like books that have a little more depth and complexity to the characters/storyline.
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Yes, I'm the same with ya. I love a good slow burn romance, that isn't the main plot of the story. One preferably without teenage angst and one whre the characters have a lot more going on than their love lives 😆
Luckily Francis Hardinge s books don't have romance as they are also suitable for ( older) children.
Wow! Finally someone recommending exactly what I need. I don't read romance or extreme v!olence. I just checked out Francis Hardinge (never heard before) and I loved deeplight by the blurb of it. Added it to my cart immediately!
Could you please recommend some more fantasies without romance and extreme v!olence? Thanks for your recommendation. From India ☺️👍🏽
I can recommend Christina Henry's Alice series (Alice/Red Queen/Looking Glass) and her standalones 'The Girl in Red', 'Lost Boy' and 'The Mermaid.' Also anthologies edited by Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane; 'Cursed' and it'd follow-up 'Twice Cursed' as well as 'Wonderland' (A dark Alice in Wonderland anthology and 'The Other Side of Never' (A dark Peter Pan anthology).
Thank you so much for the recommendations. Lots I haven't heard of before, so I'm excited to look them up!
Great list lovely 💜
I love Angela Slatter.
I read You Let Me In recently based on your recommendation, and really enjoyed it. I will definitely look into some of these.
You might like The Green Man of Eshwood Hall, by Jacob Kerr.
Yey! I'm so glad you enjoyed "You Ket Me In'. That's one of my favorite horror stories. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look it up 😊🧡
I don't know if this counts as a YA, but I don't think so. I loved it: Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly. Other books by her too. Also
Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino. I loved it so much and I'm upset it has such a low rating.
Hello 🧡 Thanks for the recommendations. Hadn't heard of either of those before. Excited to check them out! 😊