The Bibliophile's Bookshelf

It’s time for a new Saturday Spotlight theme! This month’s theme is retellings!

This week I am sharing A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim!

This is a retelling of Beauty and the Beast with dragons and Asian mythology. It takes place underwater, with sea creatures and mermaids! It’s very atmospheric and beautiful, with wonderful descriptions of food. The romance was also adorable. Elang and Tru was so cute, and watching their relationship grow was everything!

Truyan Saigas didn’t choose to become a con artist, but after her father is lost at sea, it’s up to her to support her mother and two younger sisters. A gifted art forger, Tru has the unique ability to paint the future, but even such magic is not enough to put her family back together again, or stave off the gangsters demanding payment in blood for her mother’s gambling debts.

Left with few options, Tru agrees to a marriage contract with a mysterious dragon lord. He offers a fresh start for her mother and sisters and elusive answers about her father’s disappearance, but in exchange, she must join him in his desolate undersea palace. And she must assist him in a plot to infiltrate the tyrannical Dragon King’s inner circle, painting a future so treasonous, it could upend both the mortal and immortal realms…