Title: Pricked Authors: Scott Mooney Genre: Fairy Retelling Publisher: Bleeding Ink Publishing Publication Date: August 13 th , 2019 Hosted by: Lady Amber's PR Blurb: Briar Pryce has the power to change the emotions of others by handing them a rose. It is a talent that has done surprisingly little for her, besides landing her a dead-end enchantment delivery job and killing any chance she had with her childhood-crush-turned-roommate. Worst of all, her ability might be responsible for getting her best friend transformed into a cat via a cursed muffin basket. Needless to say, Briar is nowhere near happily-ever-after. But that’s just life as a twentysomething in the Poisoned Apple, New York City’s lost borough of fairy-tale wonder and rent-controlled magic. When Briar reluctantly agrees to help find a princess’s kidnapped boyfriend in exchange for reversing the curse on her friend, she gets the heroic quest she never really wanted. Unfortunatel...

Review: Sleeping Beauty: Back to Reality - Book #2 Modern Fairy Tales - Jenni James - March 2017 One of my favorite tropes is renditions of fairytales, and Jenni James is one of my favorite authors as I first discovered her via her Austen tales. Sleeping Beauty: Back to Reality takes us into the life of Aurora Wellington, who has been in a coma for over a year.  Lying in a hospital bed, she is awoken by a kiss. The thing is though that she has no idea who the kisser is; she doesn't recognize him at all. Does she have a boyfriend? How can this be when she has never been kissed before to her knowledge? We learn that Aurora was in a car crash and has amnesia for a few months leading up to the accident. This means she doesn't remember Philip - the guy who kissed her.  He has been visiting her every day for a year as he feels responsible for her accident.  Sleeping Beauty: Back to Reality is about Aurora's journey back to life and finding herself and eventual...

Title: Savage Beauty Author: Casey L. Bond Genre: YA Epic Fantasy, Fairy Tale Retelling Editor: Stacy Sanford/ The Girl with the Red Pen Cover Designer: Melissa Stevens/ The Illustrated Author Design Services Hosted by:  Lady Amber’s PR Blurb:   Once upon a time, a beautiful queen was cursed by a dark faery. That curse, inherited by twin princesses, Aura and Luna, binds their lives in the strangest of ways. At an early age, the girls were more than sisters. They were the strongest of allies until a combination of jealousy, anger and dark magic tore their relationship to shreds. Aura took everything from Luna: her home, her family, and her love by murdering the prince who’d chosen her instead of Aura. Luna wants revenge, but she’s running out of time. She must sever the magical bond tying her life to Aura’s before their eighteenth birthday or be bound to her forever. In desperation, she seeks help from a dark fae prince, but the price is steep – a pie...