🏷️ Retelling
5 entries tagged with this trope
Circe
Madeline Miller · 2018
The witch of Greek mythology gets her own story. Circe isn't powerful or beautiful like other gods. But she finds her own magic, on her own terms. Quietly devastating.
A Touch of Darkness
Scarlett St. Clair · 2019
Persephone meets Hades in a nightclub. She hates him. He's obsessed. A modern Hades and Persephone retelling where he's the god of the dead and she's a journalism student. The mythology nerd's dream romance.
House of Salt and Sorrows
Erin A. Craig · 2019
Twelve sisters. One by one, they're dying. A retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses but make it gothic horror. The atmosphere is suffocating and the mystery is genuine.
The Song of Achilles
Madeline Miller · 2012
Patroclus tells the story of Achilles — from boyhood friendship to the Trojan War. You know how it ends. You read it anyway. And it DESTROYS you. The last page is one of the most devastating in literature.
An Offer from a Gentleman
Julia Quinn · 2001
Benedict Bridgerton meets a mystery woman at a masquerade ball. She vanishes. A Cinderella retelling with class dynamics that feel real and a love interest who earns his happy ending.