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This is a YA retelling of beauty and the beast, it is one of my favourite beauty in the beast retellings although I’m a massive sucker for this specific fairy tale retelling, I can't exactly pinpoint why I’m so drawn to it but I love them and I’ve read quite a few, this one however does some really interesting things because our beauty character, the one that fulfils that role in the fairy tale, is actually from our contemporary world.

So this is a YA thriller that eeks into the YA horror genre. There is a blend of both genres in here but the premise is we follow a teenage girl named Margo who has a strained relationship with her mother, she doesn't know anything about her family outside of her mother, it's always just been the two of them and she's getting fed up of this so she manages to find a clue to who her mother's mother might be, her grandmother and once she's able to get in contact with that side of her family decides to run off to live with her grandmother in another part of rural America, in this town where her family clearly used to be quite wealthy and own a lot of farmland although everything isn't as wonderful as it once was, although everything isn't as wonderful as it once was, and when she arrives there something really tragic happens.

I’ve already mentioned that I’ve read quite a few beauty and the beast retellings, I absolutely love the subgenre, let me know if you'd like a dedicated video to that, but Entreat Me is one of my absolute favourites. It definitely hones in on the romance side of beauty and the beast but it also has some twists and turns that you don't necessarily expect from a beauty and the beast retelling.

It is absolutely fascinating, it very much plays on the themes of the traditional gothic but brings it to a slightly more contemporary setting like I said the 1990s and it very much feels like a feminist novel that also draws on contemporary themes despite being set in the past. So different novels in a lot of ways but novels that very much reminded me of each other and I both think again are really good.

It's a really excellent work of YA feminist literature and one that's actually quite creepy and quite dark. I will also point out that there are trigger warnings in this for eating disorders which may not be for all readers.

I love that in this book the stakes were very real, you cannot be assured going into this book that everyone is going to be safe and it was just such a captivating story about a really interesting group of people, there was lgbtq+ representation and yeah all in all just a really genuinely creepy horror novel regardless of age demographic.

I think you can hear from both of those synopsis that there is already parallels there but they're both unique story lines I just think if you like the narrative and the themes and the pacing of this book you'll probably very much like Roanoke Girls.

This is one of those ones where there's something out there in the dark and you never know when it's going to appear, you feel incredibly on edge and jumpy whilst reading this book but it's so absorbing that you cannot put it down and there is definitely some really interesting twists and turns to the story and in that sense it feels very in line with the horror in Rules for Vanishing so these are both books I absolutely adored and would highly recommend.