#finding a book

[skellseerwriting]

I can’t find this book and it’s driving me crazy

it’s a YA novel full of around 8-12 short fairytale retellings with about half of them being queer (book came out in 2021 I think?)

the cover is that of a 2D shadowy wolf from above with its jaws open around the small outline of a woman

the title was something like “A beast of teeth and claws” or “A beast of shadow and something” but I can never find it with those terms. Maybe “A Tale of Beasts and Claws”? Idk at this point

The first short story I think was Snow White, and it’s like a cycle that repeats with Snow White becoming the evil queen mother

then there was a red riding good one where the villagers regularly sacrificed girls to the wolves

then we have gay man Aurora with orange-hair demon boy who drinks his blood. There’s a Peter Pan one when Wendy starts getting older and he abandons her. The little mermaid but the sea witch convinces her that she’s being stupid

we have a Bluebeard retelling where he instead only adopts feminine boys from the orphanage and the seventh one manages to kill him and avenge his brethren

there’s a Cinderella retelling where her mice helps her find her Prince and ends up getting turned back into a human, but after Cinderella gets married to the Prince, she and her handmaiden fall in Yuri with each other and run away together

So yeah if you remember the name of the book that would be great 👍

[gailcarriger]

Where do you go for new book or author recommendations?

(aside from here on Tumblr)

I'm genuinely curious, where do you go when you are looking to read something (or someone) new?

Friend(s) - IRL or online

Library / a librarian in person

Genre/trope rec lists (like on Goodreads or Libby)

Author(s) I follow on social media

Bookstore in person

TikTok book reviewer(s) - aka BookTok

YouTube book reviewer(s) - aka BookTube

Book review blog(s) like Book Riot or newspaper/magazines like Locus etc...

Search/reviews online book vendor/app Amazon/Kobo/Apple/B&N etc... or their

Discussion groups/threads (like on Discord or Reddit)

Voting ended onMay 7, 2023

Other options might include:

Author/publisher newsletter/blog(s)

Instagram book reviewer(s) - aka Bookstagram

Award or nomination lists, contest winners

Podcast/radio/news show

Conventions, signings, festivals, other book events

I'm into audio: audible recs and/or a narrator I like does a new author

BookBub or similar email dealmaker

Subscription box or book of the month club

Book group(s) - online or IRL

Google (or other browser) searching

But Tumblr only lets me put 10 options in a poll, as it turns out.

[fandomfanaticbutterfly]

I'm looking for a book series for tween girls from the 80s or 90s. The main character had an asian best friend named hermione and there was a girl named christi or cristi (the way that was spelled with an I at the end was a plot point in the first book). The girls at school all copied it, even her friend who tried going by Hermi. There was like 3 or 4 books I think. One had her and cristi as live models for a boutique window display and she tries to perm her hair by herself at one point in that book. Does anyone know what the name of these books are? I'm looking for them for my little sister.

[thefictionalgemini]

Can you help me from a division book please?

I remember reading a book with Aaron keener/original character along with the rest of the warlords of New York character (all of the men) and it was all of them sleeping with the OC I can’t seem to find it. It’s was keeners surprise for the Oc.

I’m not normally into that but I really enjoyed it the writing for it was amazing. If anyone knows what I’m talking about please let me know maybe remind me of the name or the site that it’s on because for the life of me I can’t.

There isn’t enough works for Aaron keener or his team. Let alone the whole story also.

Send me a DM or tell me in the comments.

Thank You.

[amazonmountain]

Unfortunately theres a book thats been haunting me that I CANNOT remember the name of so now I must make use of Crowd Sourcing. I am desperate and in the midst of this hyper-fixation lol I spent like five hours on Good Reads hunting for it to no avail. Please help me. 

From what I remember; I believe this might've been the second book in a series. What I remember from this book is that the protagonist has broad knowledge of plants. I believe she's in the midst of a romance with a gardener boy? (thats a stretch on my memory) I read this between 2011-2014, I believe it was a recent publication then. In the book she dyes her hair black, get addicted to opium (eyes basically become black then; due to enlarged pupils from the drug use) and (is forced to) join an association planning an assassination by poison; I can't remember her 'real' name; but she takes up the 'codename' Belladonna. Other members of the association also took codenames associated with poisonous plants. I believe the assassination target is a king. She gets close to the king, puts a poisonous flower in his drink, but in the end can't bring herself to commit to the deed and drinks it herself. She survives, but the antagonist of the book (who is basically the driving force thats making her do all this for reasons I cannot recall) gets pretty P.O.'d about it and uses vines to pull her into the ground, which I believe was the ending/cliffhanger of the book. I think the antagonist may have been a Fae (fairy) but am not sure. Weird, I know. But I'll be so grateful if anyone even has an idea. 

[paulinhaals]

LOOKING FOR A BOOK/STORY/FANFICTION, I HAVE NO IDEA YET

A few days ago I was on a book blog and saw a plot that interested me, but no one said which book, fanfiction or story was. Can someone help me? Here is the plot: The good guy had a bride / girlfriend who cheated on him, he for revenge marries the young lady / good / virgin and honest. During the wedding he begins to like her. But the ex comes back and says she's pregnant. He, being a good person, does not want his son to be a bastard. Then he divorces the girl and marries the vixen, who was in fact bankrupt and the son was not his, but he only finds out after the child is born. Parallel to this, the disillusioned girl changes country because she is pregnant. The son is born and is the face of the father (of course) ... the good guy is wondering why the girl did not accept the money / house / and everything .... he hires detectives who finds out that she is in such a place with his son.  I appreciated the help  :) 

Have a good week

[rumpeltyltskyn]

Looking for a book

When I was younger (middle school, I think), I read a book I really enjoyed about a boy who runs away from home and gets a job at a tiger/big cat sanctuary in Texas (he’s actually 14, but lies and tells them he’s 16). The sanctuary takes care of illegal exotic pets that were taken from their owners. At one point, there’s a tornado that kills at least one of the sanctuary’s cats (a leopard or jaguar). A main part of the story is about a very big, dangerous white tiger that has to be locked in a small cage while they clean his pen, and that’s one of the boy’s jobs, and he manages to get a bit of a good relationship with the tiger. There’s a man who works at the sanctuary who was doing, something, shady. The boy finds out and the man tries to kill the kid, but the tiger winds up saving him. In the end the boy gets discovered to be a runaway and reunited with his parents (or something, I don’t remember exactly).

I THOUGHT the title was Claws but I seem to be wrong. I definitely remember there being claw marks on the cover, though. Anybody else remember this book? Do you know the title?

Tagging @maxisthenewalex because my favorite librarian might be able to help.