I am a sucker for all things “Beauty and the Beast”. I will never get tired of it. It has always been my favorite fairy tale I and love reading all the variations authors take on it. That said, this was not my favorite Beauty and the Beast retelling (I think my favorite is still “Beauty” by Robin McKinley). There was so much I appreciated about it but I didn’t connect with it like I had hoped to. I LOVE the idea of this book. I loved Yeva’s (Beauty’s) wanderer nature and yearning for something “more”. She was highly spirited…
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The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
Kristin Hannah really had her work cut out for her after she wrote The Nightingale. This beautiful book follows her wild success nicely and I’m betting her followers won’t be disappointed. And while The Great Alone wasn’t quite as perfect as The Nightingale I didn’t mind. I still feel this will be one of the more memorable reads from 2018 (pretty soon to be calling it I know, but you guys this was good!). Let’s talk about the good stuff, there really is so much to mention. First, the backdrop, the Alaskan wilderness was nothing sort of magical. Hannah really…