Review for Beasts and Beauty
“So she sticks close to her father, and whenever he gives gold to her sisters for new dresses and boots, he also slips her some, which Mei uses to buy new books, while the rest she buries under a floorboard so she can one day live free of men entirely in a house of her own with a library two stories high and a garden where she can read.”
Blog Tour ~ Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales by Melanie Gillman ~ Top 5 Reasons to read the book
Cover Lover Saturday ~ This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron
Cover Lover Saturday ~ Bravely by Maggie Stiefvater
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
There are many legends about my mother. Some say she betrayed her husband, a great mortal warrior, stealing his Elixir of Immortality to become a goddess. Others depict her as an innocent victim who swallowed the elixir while trying to save it from thieves. Whichever story you believe, my mother, Chang’e, became immortal. As did I.
Friday’s Page 69 ~ Beasts and Beauty by Soman Chainani
Beware the parent who craves a child in order to mend a broken heart.
They often come with the best of intentions, as this one does, with his once rose-red hair turned gray and his sagging flesh and hump in his spine, a man once a boy, whose parents kept him in a tower and smothered him with love, hoarding him away, until it was too late to find love for himself.
Cover Lover Saturday ~ Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan
Cover Lover Saturday ~ Beasts and Beauty: Dangerous Tales by Soman Chainani + Julia Iredale
Cover Lover Saturday ~ Beneath the Moon: Fairytales, Myths, and Divine Stories from Around the World by Yoshi Yoshitani
