How to Write a Good Retelling

this is a beauty and the beast retelling and i toted this as maybe my new favorite series once i read the third one because what she did is she took a beauty and the beast story she did twist on the beast and a twist on the main character i thought that was really good

but that's absolutely not what happens and i love that she expanded the world and she gave life to all these other characters and she made it her own fantasy series

some of my other favorite retellings is a more magic realism contemporary of the wild swans which is blanca and roja by anna marie mclemore

a really good example of this is brightly burning by alexa dawn which is a retelling of jane eyre but in space this book hits a lot of story beats really well but because it's set in space it has a slight change on each of them

there is deathless by catherine m valente which takes that but puts it during world war ii and it's very such a beautiful very savage book highly recommend

or we have a very high fantasy like winter inspired retelling which is echo north and that is a retelling of east of the sun and west of the moon

i want to give some examples of those and some of my other favorite retellings in general so for example the like vaguely ish sort of retelling book is lifelike by jay kristoff

boneless mercies by april genevieve tucholke is a retelling of beowulf which is really cool except it's like a gender swap feminist retelling hell yeah

a book that i think does the snow white retelling exceptionally well is the shadow queen by cj redwine which i will never shut up about this book does a twisted evil queen so well and it really digs into that evil queen as you can see from the apple on the front there's a good twist on the prince there's a good twist on the hunter but in particular it focuses on the evil queen

i personally like this one because it is almost beat for beat what the original story is like trying to say but it's also a little bit darker like there's like a demon in there somewhere which is like i love some a book with a demon in it

what's crack lack and literary geeks happy tuesday as i'm on an all-time high after finishing these violent delights by chloe gong i want to talk to you today about what makes a good retelling