Friday, January 6, 2023

#Review - A Villain's Ever After by Nina Clare & Lea Doué (2 Reviews in 1 Post) #Fantasy #Fairy Tales

Series: A Villain's Ever After # 4
Format: Kindle, 166 pages
Release Date: September 3, 2021
Publisher:  lost& found Stories
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Fairy Tales

What if the prince fell in love with the stepsister?

Lady Charlotte needs a rich husband, and fast. Good thing she has plenty of beauty and charm, with no foolish ideas of love to get in the way of her plans. When the chance to catch the wealthiest, most eligible bachelor in the kingdom appears, she will do everything in her power to win such a prize; even if she must break a few hearts along the way. But in the end, it is her own heart that's troubled. Perhaps true love really does exist, but if so, it’s not with the man she has caught…


Nina Clare's The Stepsister and the Slipper is one of twelve short novels in A Villain's Ever After, a collection of standalone stories featuring villainous twists on some of your favorite classic fairy tales. Who said villains can't have happily-ever-afters? This story is the authors retelling of Cinderella, with Charlotte Genevieve Bellerose as the narrator. Charlotte is the stepdaughter of Baron de Bellerose, and daughter of Baroness de Bellerose. Charlotte's younger sister Blanche assumes the role of Cinderella. She's the one who mends the dresses, who cleans, and cooks, takes all the abuse, and has a godmother. Her mother is someone who steals because the family is all but broke. When an invitation comes to the Royal Balls, featuring the Crown Prince Artus, Charlotte believes that it is her turn to shine. She even finds a man named Lancelot de Troye who is as mysterious as he is roguish. Can Charlotte catch herself a Prince, or will Blanche be the first one to find the golden ring?  




Series: A Villain's Ever After # 6
Format: Kindle, 132 pages
Release Date: September 17, 2021
Publisher: Butterwing Publishing
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Fairy Tales

No matter how the sugar sparkles, never sample the sweets.

Evony is the daughter of a witch, with all of her reputation but none of her powers. She’s spent her whole life in the heart of the forest, safe from outsiders in a wondrous candy cottage as dangerous as it is beautiful. Kept company by a trio of tiny companions—a loyal gingerbread dragon and two mischievous brownies—Evony’s one desire is to find a place in the human world. But first, she must find a way to undo her mother’s spells and free the poor souls who fell to temptation. Only two obstacles stand in her way. A traveler with distracting molasses-brown eyes, and the one creation the witch left behind with the power to stop her: the gingerbread man.

Lea Doue's Hansel and the Gingerbread Queen is one of twelve short novels in A VILLAIN’S EVER AFTER, a collection of stand-alone stories featuring villainous twists on some of your favorite classic fairy tales. Evony is a young woman whose mother was the witch of the village. In order to get the supplies she needs, she wears her mother's disguise of Madam Helga. It has been 4 months since her mother passed, and nobody is the wiser. She lives in a gingerbread home, along with her brownie friends Cork and Broom, as well as her little dragon named Juniper. Evony has been trying to find ways to save humans who have been turned into gingerbread people from being eaten by the villain named Magnus who considers Evony to be his queen. Then a stranger named Hansel and his pixie Gretel show up. Hansel is searching for a new home, and claims to be a baker who has heard rumors of a gingerbread castle. It will be up to Evony and Hansel to find the missing ingredient to free her gingerbread people before Magnus finds a way to eat them all. Keep hope alive!




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