Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

[meganbmoore]

This is a fairly straightforward retelling of “East of the Sun, West of the Moon”, which is one of my favorite fairy tales. The original tale is followed fairly closely, with an added subplot involving the heroine’s brother, as well as bit more done with the past girls who have tried to break the curse with previous princes, and failed. (Actually,

Comments

[koalathebear]

Argh I've been wanting to read this but it's not out on Kindle ($9.99) and I wasn't sure if it was worth the price of the hard copy book PLUS shipping to Australia... Because of the other young adult books I've read, this book comes up as a recommendation plus that Rumpelstiltskin retelling and The Amaranth Enchantment, too. None of which are available on Kindle :(

I have a beautiful copy of East of the Sun, West of the Moon illustrated by PJ Lynch that I really love. Argh too many books! Brain exploding!

[meganbmoore]

It's worth the reading. I actually haven't read either of the other two you mention, though I plan to.

[animeshon]

Sounds interesting. I shall have to add it to my list!

[sisterjune]

I love this fairy tale like ridiuclous amounts. In general I love fairy tales even the ones that dont have awesome heroines because I love how they have made it through the years and alot of them are fun to retell with your own spin on it. I kind of dont like the idea of a retelling that's basically the same story with lots of extra things tacked on. I always felt the beauty of fairytales are there simplicity and brevity. I have a crazy need to collect all those fairty tale retelling short stories anthologies that ellen datlow and terri windling edited though.

[meganbmoore]

Actually, I think East of the Sun, West of the Moon is one of the few fairy tales that lends itself well to to straight retellings, bits added on or not, as there's enough of a heroic journey/quest to it for the plot to withstand it.