Sappho's Fables, Volume 1 by Elora Bishop

Three princesses - two in exile, one happily married, go on fairy tale influenced adventures to save themselves and the Kingdom.

It is a splendid retelling and worth reading both for the romance and the mythology.įour books (so far) featuring fun, action filled adult fairy tale retellings. The Dark Wife by Sarah Diemer retells the Greek legend of Persephone, who falls in love with the goddess Hades. Read the review of Huntress and the review of Ash. While the sequel, Huntress, is a bit of a mixed bag of mostly Asian fairy tales, the first book Ash is recognisably a fey Cinderella story. Malinda Lo's first two young adult books are both heavily inspired by fairy tales and mythology. While it's not a particular retelling of any story in particular, Adijan and her Genie has all the elements of Aladdin, or other 1001 Nights tales. Fairly dark retellings of the usual fairy tales, many with lesbian protagonists. The Rose and The Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block (author of the award winning Weetzie Bat stories). The Huntress and the Doe is short story based on 'The Snow Queen' by Selene Coulter. Two more erotic fairytale collections are Like A Queen: Lesbian Erotic Fairy Tales and Rumpled Silk Sheets: Lesbian Fairy Tales They followed Once Upon A Dyke up with Bell, Book and Dyke: New Exploits of Magical Lesbians, which follows the same format. While I haven't read this one yet, the authors are fairly recognisable and the reviews are favourable. Once upon a Dyke: New Exploits of Fairy Tale Lesbians contains four erotica stories featuring well known fairy tale characters. Other well-reviewed alternate fairytale anthologies that are heavier on the fantasy than the erotica are Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins by Emma Donoghue ( reviewed here), The Spindle and Other Lesbian Fairy Tales and So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction (which also includes gay male stories).

For a better idea of the book, check out the review.įairytales for Femmes is not about particular fairy tales, but is a collection of short stories that follow the 'happily ever after' fantasy fairytale formula.

A couple of absolute gems here, and definitely worth the time to read. Sleeping Beauty, Indeed & Other Lesbian Fairytales is a splendid mixture of stories retelling ten different obscure or well known fairy tales and adding a very lesbian spin. But none of these have bad reviews overall).

This is a quick list of all the ones with reasonable reviews (or in some cases, none. Most of the lesbian fairytales tend to be found in themed anthologies - many of them erotica.

Sappho's Fables, Volume 1 by Elora Bishop