As someone who grew up with fairytales, I guess this is an exception since it is a retelling the classic Cinderella. BUT I really devoured this one. The simplicity, the numerous additions that just makes sense (the clever personifications of ‘fate’, ‘chance’ and ‘tranquill’), and the character growth of the ugly stepsister were just 🥹.

I've been trying to find some good book subscription boxes as an alternative to Book of the Month. I've stumbled across Auriel, which is a romantasy book subscription box. Every month, you have a choice between 3 romantasy books of varying spice levels with sprayed pages for $14.99 plus free shipping. What do y'all think of this?

What are your opinions on authors "milking" a series? Tbh, for me, I don't mind it as long as it ADDS to the story. But, obviously, at some point, they just have to stop it.

Take the Powerless Trilogy by Lauren Roberts, for example. Imo, it could've been shortened a lot more, and Fearful didn't add much to the story but unanswered questions, which were clearly for the purpose of creating move spin-offs in the series. In this case, I don't agree with adding more books to the series and I probably won't read them.

Now, with the Inheritance Games Saga by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, it may seem like she's writing more books for nothing, but I believe that it's actually adding to the story. I loved the foreshadowing done from the very first book. Sure, it could've stayed as a trilogy, but when she continued it ADDED to the story! In this case I don't mind and I'll happily continue reading it!

What do you guys think?

Is this like....Dracual AU 🤣?? Because to my knowledge Dracula died at the end of Bram Stoker book right? He like turned to dust? But this book goes on after that. In fact, Harker is mentioned in a little throwaway line. So what is this like an alternate timeline? It almost annoyed me a little to read that bit, because before I was just like.. ok this is maybe a retelling in a different-ish setting where that never happened.

But because Harker and the events in "Dracula" were mentioned... it threw up so many questions 😓 Had to put the book down and go "wat?"

I was chatting with a few people on here about this book and honestly I really wanted to push through it, I did. But I just don’t have the capacity right now to try to struggle with the narrative and constantly trying to translate what Good Stab is saying 😔