crystal_dark's Reviews (669)

This was a quick and fun story and I plan to read more from this series in the future.

I really enjoyed this retelling of Sleeping Beauty and the story for Briar Rose and Walter. This series has been really enjoyable so far with excellent world building and character development. While each story can be read as a standalone reading them together allows you to get to know some of the characters better by getting more backstory for characters whose stories are ahead as well as glimpses into how other characters whose stories have happened are doing later. I look forward to reading more of this series.

Series Character and Story Connections for Spindles And Spells: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Sleeping Beauty

Rapunzel and Gavin's story are in Tower Of Thorns: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Rapunzel (Book 01)

Ella's story will be in Pumpkins And Proms: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Cinderella (Book 03)

Marigold's story will be in Lilies Of Loss: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of The Frog Prince (Book 04)

Helena's story will be in Feathers Of Fate : A Fairy Tale Retelling Of The Goose Girl (Book 09)

Arthur's story will be in a two part story between The Almost Queen: A Legend Retelling Of Guinevere and Lancelot (Book 10) and The Rightful King: A Legend Retelling Of King Arthur (Book 11)

This was the first book by this author I read and I enjoyed their character descriptions and the story as a whole. I liked reading about Mary in this book and seeing how her character reflected on her relationships with various characters. The epilogue at the end was also really entertaining.

This was a really good book that revolves around Mary Bennet and her journey to find her happily ever after. The book takes place three years after Pride & Prejudice ends and includes all 5 sisters throughout giving readers glimpses into how Lizzy & Darcy, Jane & Bingley, and Lydia & Wickham are doing. Kitty also has a role in this book and we get to see her quest for love as well as Mary's during this book. I felt the author did a really good job of writing Mary so the reader would connect with her. Overall I enjoyed this book and thought it had a good ending.

I really enjoyed this story and getting to know Rapunzel and Gavin. This book also has several other characters that are introduced that I liked and look forward to reading more about in the future. I look forward to reading the next book in this series Spindles And Spells: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Sleeping Beauty.

Series Character and Story Connections for Tower Of Thorns: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Rapunzel

Briar Rose's story will be in Spindles And Spells: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Sleeping Beauty

Ella's story will be in Pumpkins And Proms: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of Cinderella (Book 03)

Marigold's story will be in Lilies Of Loss: A Fairy Tale Retelling Of The Frog Prince (Book 04)

Helena's story will be in Feathers Of Fate : A Fairy Tale Retelling Of The Goose Girl (Book 09)

This was a great continuation from the Starlight Highlanders Mail Order Brides series and I enjoyed the introduction of the Vikingr alien Vikings to the world previously established in the first series. It was fun to see the evolution of Steff who had been a minor character in previous books as well as how Njal changed over the course of the story. I look forward to reading Errik's story in the next book Drengr as well as Rune's story in Berserkr.

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This was the third book in the Starlight Vikings Series and was about Rune and his human mate Laurel who signed up looking into a story and not planning on actually meeting her soulmate. They have some issues along the way but I was happy when everything worked out for them. While this is the last book for the Starlight Vikings I hope that the author revisits this world in the future with some new aliens to sign up with Hot Tatties dating agency.

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This is the third and final book in the Starlight Highlanders Mail Order Brides Series and it does a great job of tying things up for the planet Albya. I enjoyed Beth and Cyle's characters and seeing how they worked together to find a cure for the Sleep. I look forward to reading more by Skye MacKinnon in the future.

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This book was a good continuation of the Starlight Highlanders series and I enjoyed that we got to see a little of Jenny and Thorn in this book and how it tied this story to the previous one by having June connected to Jenny through Jenny's sister-in-law. June and Eron were fun to read about and I loved the baby Taigeis that Eron was taking care of. I look forward to reading the next book in this series.

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This was a really interesting variation of Mansfield Park and I enjoyed seeing Henry Crawford reform and become such a strong support for Fanny. It is also nice that Mary Crawford is able to grow as a character as well.