Beauty & the Beast Retelling Recommendations + TBR

[@sarahlucas1999]

An adult retelling would be 'The Beasts Garden' by Kate Forsyth. It's set in Germany during WWII. I read her book 'Bitter Greens' a Repunzel retelling a few years ago and also 'The Wilde Girl' who married one of the Grimm brothers. Her books are fantastic.

[@MerrilyKristin]

Bitter Greens has been on my wish list for a while! I love Rapunzel

[@sarahlucas1999]

Super Space Chick it's a very dark retelling. One of the women in the book is based on fact. I loved it, I'd love to reread it.

[@Volare38152]

My favourite book ever is kind of a Beauty and the Beast retelling, it's not strictly based on that fairy tale, but based on a similar Nordic (??) folk tale where the girl must live in the castle with the prince who is under a spell to look like an animal, and she then goes to rescue him when it doesn't work out as planned. It's called North Child, or East (depending on local release) and it's by Edith Pattou

[@charliekenton3399]

Volare38152 that’s my favorite, too! It’s so underrated in my opinion.

[@nerdygeekgamer5528]

Beauty's Rose and As Old as time those are the only Beauty and the Beast retelling's that I know of

[@pamelakibildis1177]

Have you heard of A Curse So Dark and Lonely? That’s An Awesome Re Telling of Beauty and the Beast too 😊

[@moonchild708]

READ CRUEL BEAUTY!!!

[@jenm762]

You should read For The Wolf. Mix of red riding hood and beauty and the beast

[@kaesinfinitelibrary]

Cruel Beauty is one of my favorite standalones ever as well as my favorite Beauty & the Beast retelling!!!! I’ve never heard of most of these and I can’t believe it!!! The Architect of Song sounds so good!

[@adisasingh1467]

Acotar was certainly not my favourite book :s but I really liked the 2nd one. I've never heard of a lot of these so thank you for the recommendations :)

[@MerrilyKristin]

Haha that seems to be the general consensus! I really enjoyed ACOTAR when I read it but I'm currently re-reading it and cringing A LOT. ACOMAF is the bestttttt.

[@israaahmed7168]

Beauty and the Beast Retellings: Of Beast and Beauty by Stacey Jay Beastly by Alex Flinn Also, have you watched the movie because IT IS SO AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

[@MerrilyKristin]

Not yet!!! I'm seeing the movie on Saturday and I CANNOT WAIT!

[@israaahmed7168]

Super Space Chick YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!

[@jinkisyellowsuit]

Dodo Pink I ADORE OF BEAST AND BEAUTY AND IT'S SOOOO UNDERRATED!!! 😢😢😢

[@xmoonlightxdreamsx]

I absolutely loooooooooved it! I cried so much because I have been looking forward to it for soooo long lol

[@xmoonlightxdreamsx]

And the new music? I'm obsessed

[@LuminousLibro]

I never thought of "Sunshine" as a Beauty&Beast retelling. I mean, he's a vampire, not a beast. And she's not particularly bookish or anything, and she doesn't have a father that is held prisoner by the beast. Hhhmmm.... stretching it to say it's a retelling, but I guess if anything with a beastly guy under a curse and a lovely innocent girl is fair game, then okay!

[@CarolynsReadingRamblings]

Heart's Blood is actually aimed at adults I believe but it is a great book! 4 that I highly recommend are A Subtle Beauty by Ann Hunter, Beauty by Robin McKinley (my favorite retelling ever!) and Rose Daughter also by Robin McKinley which is nearly like a mirror image of Beauty which is what is so cool about it, and lastly Beastly by Alex Flinn which is also a cute film. One that I haven't read yet but have heard good things about is Fire Rose by Mercedes Lackey but I think that definitely isn't YA. Great video 😀

[@anamikaacharjee726]

Hey thank you so much for the video I love beauty and the beast story and would love to read its retellings. You can try : 1. Beauty and the Beast and the Enchantress. By - Finley Aaron. Its the story from the witches point of view. Here she is telling how she is not the villain of the story but a victim. Why she did what she has to do. Hope you like it.

[@BresBooks83854]

Have you read Beauty by Robin McKinley?? If you liked her other book I would give that a try. One of my favs!

[@jersy6406]

How many Beauty and the Beast retellings did Robin McKinley write? Sunshine is the third I've heard about^^

[@kailynellis3768]

I read Cruel Beauty and rated it like 3/5 stars for various reasons. It was okay but not my favorite book but I want to try more from that author to see how I feel about her other books. I'm excited for Hunted because it sounds so good.

[@nerdtastic2014]

Zaylee Bones Rosamund Hodge's second book Crimson Bound is even better than Cruel Beauty! I'd recommend it. The world building is excellent, and I love the incorporation of several fairy tales, including Little Red Riding Hood, The Juniper Tree, and Hansel and Gretel.

[@Amanda-nq6mw]

Beauty by Robin McKinley

[@eaglebeagle450]

i've never heard of Sunshine but it sounds super interesting so I'm gonna read it haha, thank you for including it :)

[@MerrilyKristin]

It is! I hope you enjoy it!

[@nerdygeekgamer5528]

T.E. Elliott has a Beauty and the Beast retelling it's a Christian historical trilogy but so far I've only been able to find the first two books I don't know if that would interest you and then there's beauty's Rose part of the Fairy-tale Inheritance Series by Shonns Slayton there the only two I can think of

[@cenavicky5454]

I tried Cruel Beauty; haven't finish cause main girl remind me more of Gaston then Belle.

[@Chocotreacle]

I loved sunshine I had forgotten all about this. Thanks for this.

[@cary01usjason]

Great recs! I just finished Hunted and it was sooo good.

[@kimslr8152]

I really liked ACOTAR, cute ACOMAF was so much better! I heard a lot about uprooted as well and am looking forward to reading it soon!

[@MerrilyKristin]

YES! ACOMAF > ACOTAR.

[@sandyreadsalot]

I haven't heard of Sunshine before but I'm intrigued! I also have Uprooted on my TBR!

[@alexandrathomas6790]

I'm not sure how you can mention Sunshine by Robin McKinley and not mention her tour de force and the most gorgeous retelling of BATB ever, Beauty. It's really lovely and beautiful and definitely worth a read if you haven't already.

[@dianavelasquez1649]

Great video!

[@MerrilyKristin]

Thanks!

[@rachelloretto4833]

sunshine is one of my all-time favorite books

[@nickygoldsmith6785]

ACOTAR was so good. I loved ACOMAF more though. Can't wait till the next one comes out xx

[@JayGTheAwkwardBookworm]

I've never heard of half of these!!! So excited to go find them!

[@Inmylibrary]

Beauty by Robin McKinley is my favorite Beauty and the Beast retelling 🌷⚘

[@kimberlya7267]

my favorite beauty and the beast retelling is Cruel Beauty... I've read ACOTAR but didn't like it at all.

[@priyabooks2254]

Can you do more ya retelling recommendations please!

[@pinkeyepro]

Radiance by Grace Draven ♡

[@jennifercahill7397]

I kept saying/writing A.C. Howard when I tried to read Roseblood. Thanks for the recs. Loved ACOTAR. Sounds like a good TBR!

[@MissA0928]

im reading ACOTR rn! also ru gonna do a review for the new Beauty and the Beast movie? :-)

[@ReadingMissFroggy]

Beastly by Alex Flinn is a great retelling (and okay film too)! :)

[@felicialanerie9932]

Depravity MJ Haag It's an adult retelling, and my favorite. All Melissa Haag's books are amazing, and I highly recommend them.

[@alexalovesbooks]

I still haven’t read Sunshine! I definitely want to though, especially because I know that you loved it. Also, Heart’s Blood was pretty good! Slow burn, like most Marillier, but good.

[@xmoonlightxdreamsx]

Eeee! Beauty and the Beast is my favorite thing... I don't know how I haven't heard of some of these! There's an ebook by Nicole Ciacchella called The Eye of the Beholder that is a wonderful retelling. Have you seen the covers for the Beauty and the Beast manga coming out?! I'm so mad they got pushed out to July. 😓 Also, the live action movie is incredible. 😍 Also also, do you by any chance know what polish you're wearing in this video? It's such a beautiful color! (In addition to being a Disney Junkie and bookworm I'm also makeup and nail polish addict) 😂

[@Mandysue93]

Thank you so much for these recommendations! I have been searching for these for a while. "Old As Time" by Lis Braswell is also one. I haven't read it yet, but I have it. Its take the story and goes 'what if the enchantress who cursed the beast was Belle's mother?' it sounds interesting, but I don't know for sure yet. Also, Jen Campbell did a video talking about Beauty in the Beast which found fascinating. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJK4g5hjaNOle6M and the copy of the story she recommends as the most accurate to the original story is this one, tinyurl.com/z7jqjhd which I am also hoping to read soon.

[@OneJenna]

"Beauty" by Robin McKinley is a great B&B retelling! I have heard (but haven't read) of "Before Beauty" by Brittany Fichter and "Enchant" by Demelza Carlton.