A new twist on the Brother Grimms’ stories with a Game of Thrones-esque style. Once upon in a kingdom where there are people who can shift into animals, a woman who can turn things into gold, a king and queen with a dark secret, and a forest that can eat men... The story is a mixture of little red riding hood, rumplestilkson, the pied piper, and so many other stories all mixed into one story about a prince and princess at war with one another, a girl who can play beautiful music, a wolf boy who yearns to return home, and a girl forced to sacrifice everything for family. This was a really interesting story especially with how it mixed in so many different classic stories as well as making it, it’s own storyline. On his deathbed King Tyran divides his land between his two children, Ursula, a bear shifter princess who wants nothing more than the chance to rule the lands and protect her people and Albrecht, prince obsessed with beauty, cruelty, and building mechanical weapons. In the forest is Cappella, a girl who has been raised in isolation and the only freedom she has is her music and the wolf cub she grew up with who has disappeared. Her mother’s secrets soon unravel her world. Hans and Greta are children who grew up in the forest listening to Cappella’s music, they are the children of the Woodsman who died and are soon captured and forced into servitude to suffer under Albrecht’s cruelties until they are able to escape and return home to their forest. Political warfare between the two siblings splits the kingdom, and soon all of these characters find themselves intertwined with one another. This was a great read and I would definitely recommend it for anyone who wants to read a fairytale retelling with a bit more bite to it.