The Clockwork Fairytales series by A.B. Keuser (#2, #5)
Requirements: Epub reader, 334 Kb
Overview: When A. B. Keuser isn’t trying to make sense of her own brain soup, she writes the "charmingly gritty" Flynn Monroe series, space operas that will keep you guessing, and steamy clockwork fairytales. An Oregon native whose life has transplanted her in the Sonoran desert – where she’s slowly desiccating – she writes to stay out of the sun and heat.
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Lesbian FF
2. Hazel & Gretel
In this retelling of the classic German fairytale Hansel & Gretel, Keuser has melded magic, clockpunk, and romance to create a story that expands on the themes of the original version while adapting it into a romance between two emotionally powerful women.
Hazel Velois has spent the last six years of her life under a fairy’s amnesia spell. Now that she knows who she is and where she belongs, she has plans to escape. But there is one person she can’t leave behind—the woman she’s come to love.
Gretel has slaved in silent indignation for her mother’s business from the day she learned how to darn a sock, but when her mother suddenly remarries and plans to hand her off to the village’s local mob boss, she can’t remain obedient anymore. She won’t marry anyone but Hazel.
Together, they flee in the night. When a search party closes in, they risk everything and plunge into an enchanted wood, where the dangers only multiply. Neither knows if they’ll survive the witch who’s stolen a fairy’s powers or a clockwork beast that could devour them whole.
5. Snow on the Sea
The most divergent of Keuser’s retellings, Snow on the Sea explores a version of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves that subverts the traditional tale. This retelling explores the story from a completely different angle and features characters from book one of the series.
Heather Marchant is dying. Not fast enough, it would seem, for her aunt. When she wakes up to find an undertaker measuring her for her coffin, she knows she must flee or lose what little time she has left. Finding passage to another land is easy. Getting the powders she needs to treat the lung ailment that killed her mother is less so. But when her ship sails without her, and a huntsman haunts the shadows, she’ll make a bargain with the chemist that could change her life—however little she has left.
A prince running from a kingdom of ice and snow, Xinjuan Sendi has nurtured a reputation in the foreign land she now calls home. Some think she’s a witch, others a closer relation to her fairy grandmother than she truly is. When she is introduced to Heather by a coughing fit strong enough it should have broken windows, she wishes she had the magic whispers claimed. Heather needs more help than the white powder she’d come to collect. An offer for a cure is the least Xin can provide, but the sacrifices it will incur may be both of their undoing.
Hiding Heather, spelling her storefront, and employing distractions when necessary will only hold Heather’s aunt at bay for so long. If Xin cannot find a cure—and soon—the blood staining Heather’s lips might be the least of their worries.
Falling in love wasn’t part of their bargain.
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