“What fate awaits a girl who hears monsters at night.” 

 

Jaclyn And The Beanstalk. A gender-bent Jack and the Beanstalk retelling. 

 

I read JatB in a matter of hours, and loved all of the characters, especially Jaclyn and Jack. 

 

I enjoyed Jaclyn’s pov and seeing her journey to not only save her father, but to really find herself. Her grueling adventures from bravery to find out about her nightmares, to finding out what happened to her father. 

 

I loved seeing a Jack and the Beanstalk retelling. A kind of retelling I’ve never seen before in modern literature. A gender-bent version, much less. 

 

I enjoyed seeing the mythology and allegories to both Christianity and the legacy of the Beanstalk in general. 

 

Seeing Jack and Jaclyn together was fun, seeing their relationship bloom from childhood friends to reunited teens. 

 

A young adult retelling worthy of the hype. 

 

Tropes // retelling, witch, gender-bent 

 

Tw // nightmares, Black Death mentions, death of parent, death, blood, gore, fire

 

📸 Edit is mine, photos from Pinterest 

 

#jaclynandthebeanstalk #maryting #marytingauthor #jackandthebeanstalk #retelling #retellings #fairytaleretellings