Campaign: Once Upon A Time Series (Retellings of Fairytales)

ONCE UPON A TIME series

I grew up with fairytales and when others outgrown them, I stayed where I was.

With fairytales come a sense of magical narration, kind heroines, true love and happily-ever-afters. This was what made me keep these ancient fables close to heart. I can never handle tragedies and love triangles, tragedies make me cry and love triangles simply just annoy and complicate a good pure romance.

But, of course, my huge and heavy book of Disney fairytales eventually got placed on the shelves and it stayed there for a very very long time. And as I ventured into the world of paranormal fantasy, the fairytales sang a faded tune and was stored at the corner of my mind.

There was no doubt to the joy and surprise when I found my favourite tales retold in a more mature writing style, with teenage heroines and more complex storylines, and all in a series some more! 

Thank you Simon & Schuster (publisher) for giving the youths who yearn for the simple happiness of fairytales a delectable cure!

Starting from now, I will start my blog's first CAMPAIGN. For the next week or so, I will post reviews for my favourite novels in the Once Upon A Time series, with my  wistful and nostalgic sentiments. I do hope that you will be enchanted by these wondrous novels that accompanied me for two years. Here they are:

• The Crimson Thread by Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, published June 2008)
• Water Song by Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of The Frog Prince, published October 2006)
• Before Midnight by Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of Cinderella, published March 2007)
• Wild Orchid by Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of the Ballad of Mulan, published February, 2009)
• The Diamond Secret by Suzanne Weyn (A Retelling of Anastasia, published June 2, 2009)
• The Storyteller's Daughter by Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of The Arabian Nights, published September 2002)
• Spirited by Nancy Holder (A Retelling of Last of the Mohicans and Beauty and the Beast, published November 2004)
• Golden by Cameron Dokey (A Retelling of Rapunzel, published February 2006)

 

Stay tuned!

xoxo,

Sel :)