I love fairytale-based books.
Of course, the more effort gone to to disguise that it is a fairytale, the better, and it's also better if magic is kept ... out of it, unless it's dealt with well.
(Anyone read "East"? - cross between 'beauty and the beast' and something else... set in the 1500s, but it's a fantasy... and "Nine Coaches Waiting" is a more historical romance, though I believe it was meant to be a thriller when it was written fifty years ago...)
I was wondering if anyone had similar books they could recommend for me. I'm not looking for romance, nor books where that is the central tension, but books that either have fairytale parallels, or some "happily ever after" quality. I'm not really sure...
yeah, can anyone help me there? Or just decent historical romance or something... I'm in search of light reading, and thought perhaps I should take a break from mid-1900s murder mysteries...
Hope I made sense, and thanks.