What Makes a Good Retelling? | Favorite Book Retellings

A little book discussion and recommendation list... what makes a good retelling for a book? I pose some theories & provide some of my favorite examples :)

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Books Mentioned:

RoseBlood by A.G. Howard
The Blood Chamber by Angela Carter
The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
The Beast’s Bride by Jill Myles
When Beauty Tamed the Beast by Eloisa James
Beauty and the Billionaire by Jessica Clare
Firelight by Kristen Callihan
Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
The Secret Diary of Lizzie Bennett by Bernie Su & Kate Rorick
Heartstone by Elle Katharine White
Unequal Affections by Laura Ormiston
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Jane Steele by Lindsey Faye
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Odyssey by Homer
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier

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