This month’s Saturday Spotlight theme is retellings! This month I have shared A Forgery of Fate by Elizabeth Lim-a Beauty and the Beast retelling, Golden Tangle by Suzanna Fowers- a Rapunzel retelling, and A Captive of Wing and Feather by Melanie Cellier- a Swan Lake retelling. You can find these posts here, here, and here.
This week I am sharing A Batch of Bears and Bewitchment by Sarah Carlisle, which is an East of Sun, West of the Moon retelling!
I loved this book so much! It was so much fun and had wonderful characters. The romance was also amazing in this book! This book had a commoner x royalty romance, and the differences in class added some nice challenges into the story. I loved how the original tale was twisted, too. There were a lot of Fae characters, which I loved so much! Usually, I am not a big Fae fan, but I loved how they were incorporated into the story and made it so much fun. A Batch of Bears and Bewitchment is a wonderful cozy retelling with romance, adventures, and magic that I highly recommend!
A helping of brownies. A fistful of gremlins. And a sprinkling of love to mend what is broken.
The proudest day of Bryony’s life is the day her father, the village carpenter, is knighted for saving the king. The worst is when she learns the king has a reward for her, too: marriage to a stranger. Not just any stranger, but an earl with a frightening reputation.
Bryony arrives at Aberarth expecting polished floors, bustling servants, and a grand welcome. She’s met with an empty, neglected house and withered fields.
But Bryony isn’t delicate. She’s a village girl with stubborn optimism and capable hands. No servants? A new husband who’s too busy making mysterious magical explosions in his study to help with the laundry? Fine. She’ll rebuild Aberarth herself. First step: leave milk on the hearth for the household brownies. Then she’ll roll up her sleeves and get to work.
Because Bryony isn’t alone. Brownies, gremlins, dryads, kobolds—the fae have had reason to stay hidden. As Bryony coaxes the estate back to life, old magic stirs. And so does something dangerous and tender between her and the eccentric young earl. But Aberarth’s decay is a warning. Is Bryony the key to waking its true power—or the bait that triggers what’s buried beneath it?
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