Teaser & Top Ten Tuesdays

 

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly feature hosted by Purple Princess of The Purple Booker. 

Here are the rules:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a page
3. Pick out 2 lines that are SPOILER FREE
4. Name the title, author, etc.

"I've already experienced enough weird sh** in my life. I don't need to add 'creepy magical architecture' to the list." p 88

TITLE: Fallen Gods
AUTHOR: Rachel Van Dyken
PUBLISHER: Red Tower Books
GENRE: Fantasy Romance
RELEASE DATE: December 2, 2025

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and The Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

This week's topic is: GENRE FREEBIE: Top Ten Fairy Tale Retellings

*in no particular order

10. FOREST OF A THOUSAND LANTERNS by Julie C. Dao--Snow White retelling

9. THE SHADOW QUEEN by C.J. Redwine--Snow White retelling
8. SNOW by Tracy Lynn--the first Snow White retelling I ever read!

7. THE BEAST'S HEART by Leife Shallcross--Beauty and the Beast retelling from the Beast's POV
6. CRUEL BEAUTY by Rosamund Hodge--Beauty and the Beast retelling

5. Nocturne by Syrie James--Beauty and the Beast retelling but with vampires!

4. DOROTHY MUST DIE by Danielle Paige--The Wizard of Oz story after Dorothy came to town. This had to be the first book with a title that made me buy it without ever reading what it was about!

3. CRESS by Marissa Meyer--a Rapunzel retelling and my favorite of The Lunar Chronicles!
2. TIGER LILY by Jodi Lynn Anderson--Peter Pan retelling through Tiger Lily's eyes

1. LOST BOY by Christina Henry--Peter Pan retelling that's a Hook origin story!