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My TBR for January, not pictured Posioned by Jennifer Donnelly for the #fairytalereadingchallenge and The Emotional Craft of Fiction by Donald Mass for the #readwritegrowbc. #bookclubs #januarytbr

This is my second JRM book. Both were for youth programming & both solid fairytale retellings. This time around, she fielded questions about the human capacity for love & forgiveness. Meaty convos with potential spoilers. Great teen response.

This chilling tale never failed to captivate. It went in a number of unexpected directions. Meyer never felt compelled to give the reader exactly what they may have wanted (happiness!), which I appreciated, as I know she could have taken an easier (but less interesting) route.

*For my photo, I really wanted to capture the fact that tree people can be quite lovable! 😉😂

This book was an Amazon impulse buy. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Felt like an old fairy tale.

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This gender-reversed retelling of Beauty and Beast is an epic and beautifully epic story. Owen Merrick lost his mother to the enchanted woods. When he is saved by a tree siren, Seren, their relationship starts. The tree sirens attract humans, kill them, and collect the souls for their mother, the witch of the woods. There is a second story on why the witch wants the souls. I enjoyed Seren‘s story more than Owen‘s and the Ecofeminism view.

A fantasy love story about a boy and a monstrous tree siren, this was a seriously good standalone, that was just a little weak in the middle. 4/5

Wow... I‘m writing this as tears are still drying on my cheeks. What a gorgeous, epic story. Seren and Owen are two characters that have woven a permanent place in my heart; their story is full of so much - monsters, fear, death, curses, beauty, love, sacrifice, redemption... the ingredients of fairytales. I started the year disappointed with a DNF, but this book has made my heart so happy!!