Sure signs that the creative wells are running dry at last, the Captain’s ninth, overstuffed outing both recycles a villain (see Book 4) and offers trendy anti-bullying wish fulfillment.

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Suddenly, he has to find the traitor in his midst, and his plan for revenge gets murkier as James starts to see Wendy as more than just a pawn in his game. With her intimate knowledge of the books, Filomena travels to Never After in hopes of helping to defeat an evil queen. CROSSED is a dark, contemporary romance (not fantasy or a literal retelling) and the fifth complete standalone in the Never After series, fractured fairy tale reimagining of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. This time, they need to help defeat the ogres so the correct people can be crowned in the three areas in Never After. Though not fantasy romance or retellings, if you love fractured fairy tales, then you’ll want to check out the Never After series!This time they need to head to the Snow Country in hopes that Rose Red, Snow White’s daughter might be able to help them. At the behest of her daughter, the evil Cinderella, Queen Olga has turned Prince Charming into a Frog after his wedding to the beautiful Hortense.

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After a one-night stand with a gorgeous man at a nightclub, she’s sated her urges and is back to her criminal ways. BOOK OF THE MONTH - the much awaited latest installment in this popular diary-style series for ages 7+. So they end up helping Princess Jeanne who is trying to find the Sharif of Nottingham who disappeared while looking for her lost crown that she thinks Robin stole for her Uncle who usurped her throne but they both need the crown to be the true ruler of the kingdom. Twelve-year-old Filomena Jefferson-Cho finds herself inside the magical world of her favorite fantasy series. The villain sets off after George and Harold, who are in juvie (“not much different from our old school…except that they have library books here.Twisted is a dark, contemporary romance (not fantasy or a literal retelling) and the fourth complete standalone in the Never After series, ractured fairy tale reimagining of Aladdin.

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The characters are both childish and more responsible than most adults I know (me included 😬), her parents are lovely (and alive! There is never a dull moment in this book, and it’s cool to see how the fairytales we know and love are “really supposed to be. George and Harold link up in kindergarten to reduce a quartet of vicious bullies to giggling insanity with a relentless series of pranks involving shaving cream, spiders, effeminate spoof text messages and friendship bracelets. Every four years, two children, one regarded as particularly nice and the other particularly nasty, are snatched from the village of Gavaldon by the shadowy School Master to attend the divided titular school. How is anyone a parent at all there if they all live forever how are the not 50 billion people in Never After?Mellisa De La Cruz turns normal fairy tales into her own version and makes you believe that’s how they were the whole time. But when Michael’s new betrothed, Lady Sara Beatreaux, arrives, Tristan finds himself in the middle of a new kind of battle. Even though it is meant for an audience younger than me, I still appeal to it and enjoy every adventure on the way. When he realizes the youngest daughter of the Westerly empire is the same woman he’s been fantasizing about since that night at the club, attraction battles violently with disgust. I was surprised to find I didn't need to read the other two to understand the story (although I definitely will).