Gem ’s Comments (group member since Sep 12, 2022)

Gem ’s comments from the Once Upon a Time... group.

I can't wait to start this book. I've been meaning to read it for several years.

Lisa wrote: "I did find it interesting that most of the characters were a group of dragons and werewolves (or wolf shifters) working together. It was also a cool fact that the wolf shifters were considered more..."

LOL, it's kind of like when the Hulk transforms and he's four times as big as the man, but he still has pants on!

I'm not quite done with this book, I hope to finish it over the remainder of the weekend.

My initial impression of this selection is great. The author builds suspense on two fronts, right from the beginning. I love that.

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What Have We Read?
This is a list of all the books we've read since the end of 2022.

Fairy Tales and Retellings

Alice in Wonderland
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Heartless
The Wonderland Trials (The Curious Realities, #1)
The Looking-Glass Illusion (The Curious Realities, #2)

Arthurian Legand
Legendborn (The Legendborn Cycle, #1)

Beauty and the Beast
The Beauty and the Beast
As Old as Time
Hunted
The Fire Rose (Elemental Masters, #0)

Cinderella
Cinderella: By Charles Perrault - Illustrated
Cin d'Rella and the Water of Life (Circle of the Rose Chronicles, #1)
So This is Love

Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid
Of Sea and Song (Daughters of Eville, #3)

Neverland/Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Hook's Little Mermaid

Nutcracker
Nutcracker
Hiddensee: A Tale of the Once and Future Nutcracker

Rapunzel
Rapunzel
Grounded: The Adventures of Rapunzel (Tyme, #1)
What Once Was Mine

Rumpelstilskin
Rumpelstilskin
Gilded (Gilded, #1)
Spinning Silver

Sleeping Beauty
Once Upon a Dream

Sleepy Hollow
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow

Snow Queen
The Snow Queen
A Crown of Snow and Ice (Beyond the Four Kingdoms #3)

Snow White
Snow White by Brothers Grimm (2012) Hardcover
A Dream of Ebony and White (Beyond the Four Kingdoms #4)

Multiple Fairy Tales/Retellings
The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
The Oxford Book of Modern Fairy Tales

Epic/High Fantasy

Arrows of the Queen (Heralds of Valdemar, #1)
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again (Lord of the Rings #0)
Sorcery of Thorns (Sorcery of Thorns, #1)

Mythology

The Bear and the Nightingale (The Winternight Trilogy, #1)
Circe
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
Norse Mythology

Original Tales

Dealing with Dragons (Enchanted Forest Chronicles, #1)
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making(Fairyland, #1)
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
The Princess Bride

Urban/Low Fantasy

The Golem and the Jinni(The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
Storm Front (The Dresden Files, #1)

TBR - 2025

November - Dragon Fairest (Dragon Ever After, #1) (Original Tale)
December - Letters from Father Christmas (Original Tale)

TBR - 2026

January - The Princess and the Pea - Hans Christian Andersen(Princess & the Pea)
The Princess Companion: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea (The Four Kingdoms, #1) (Princess and the Pea)

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2026 Group Reads


January
The Princess and the Pea - Hans Christian Andersen
The Princess Companion: A Retelling of The Princess and the Pea by Melanie Cellier

February
The Fairy Godmother (Five Hundred Kingdoms, #1) by Mercedes Lackey

March
The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) by Rick Riordan

April
Medusa's Sisters by Lauren J.A. Bear

May
Lost Boy: The True Story of Captain Hook by Christina Henry

June
Mountains Made of Glass by Scarlett St. Clair

July
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

August
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow

September
Reflection by Elizabeth Lim

October
Prince of Frogs by Amberlyn Holland

November
Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly

December
The Legend of Holly Claus by Brittney Ryan

Cheryl wrote: "Wow, thank you. The Princess Companion and Appease both look good to me!"

I'll add one of them to the list for next year and put the other on the TBR bookshelf.

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