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It's been a while. Things have been crazy crazy crazy, and with much of the US in quarantine right now, many are turning to books to occupy their time. So we decided to update you all on some new indie authors that we've been keeping up with via e-books! If you're stuck at home and are having a hard time getting your hands on some hard copies (since most libraries and bookstores are closed to in-person browsing right now), we've got your back.
About two years ago now, Faith and I ran out of books to read. *Gasp* It wasn't so dramatic as that, but really with all our favorite authors in between books and nothing in particular looking interesting, I instead starting digging digitally--namely, into the Amazon Kindle world. Then I bit the bullet on a Kindle Unlimited free 3 month subscription and found that my book horizons could be widened! For some reason, I ended up reading a lot of fairy tale retellings, finding it fun to see how each author could twist the story to make it different and interesting. So though I have read through many different books in the intervening two years, our favorites ended up mostly being of the retelling variety, as we found them to be the only ones to go onto our "favorites" list. So here is a list of all that we've found that are particularly fun. If you have Kindle Unlimited, this is a great list to start with and very easy to get your hands on. But you can also buy off Amazon. Once we get some extra time, we'll try to post some reviews/recaps for you all, but for now, here are the titles! Fairy tale retellings: -Classical Kingdoms Series by Brittany Fichter (clean romances/fairy tales, though it tends to be just a little more romantic than some of the others we've read; of the series, our favorites are the Little Mermaid and Cinderella retellings) -My Carolina Airman by Brittany Fichter (loosely based off of Sleeping Beauty) -The Four Kingdoms by Melanie Cellier -The Snow Queen/Timeless Fairy Tales/The Fairy Tale Enchantress series by K. M. Shea (Interconnected series based off of multiple fairy tales--pretty consistently funny, clean, good characters, clever stories) -Fairy Tale Adventures series by A. G. Marshall (Super fun, high quality with good characters; three books have come out by now but the first two are better than the third IMHO--you make your own decision!) -The Legendary Inge by Kate Stradling (SO SO good; this retelling of Beowulf has great dialogue, great characters, great peril--a smidge more violent than the others, it's probably good for ages 12+) -The Destined series by Kaylin Lee -The Andari Chronicles by Kenley Davidson (fun series, my personal favorite is Goldheart, book 2) Fantasy: -Elves of Lessa series by K. M. Shea -Second Age of Retha series by A. M. Sohma (K. M. Shea's pen name for this particular genre, it's technically not "fantasy"--it's LitRPG/MMORPG set in a fantasy video game; it's clever, fun and exciting) Urban Fantasy: -The City Between series by W. R. Gingell (Exciting, with fun characters and a unique story; as a heads up, it does have fae, werewolves, vampires, and the like, as well as blood and gore, so if you are sensitive to this, it's probably not the series for you. For the same reason, this would definitely be a series for YA and above)
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