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Twisted Fairy Tale: An Anthology

Authors-Bethany Lopez, Elizabeth Sharp, Erin Danzer, Heather Marie Adkins, J. Laslie, Jill Cooper, K. Laslie, Magan Vernon, Susan Burdorf, Victoria Escobar

Genre- Fairy Tales

These aren’t the fairy tales you grew up with. New twists reimagine the classics to all sorts of places you’d never expect. This anthology was written solely for the purpose of raising money for the DM Currier Foundation for Peripartum Cardiomyopathy Research. For more information, you can visit savethemamas.org.

To stop a zombie plague, Snow White will need to kill the evil Queen before the last apple falls.

When Veronica Chapman falls into a coma in a horrific car accident, Trigg Chapman has the second chance to rekindle their rocky romance once upon a dream.

A princess cursed, a blind man kidnapped, and The Beast who threatens their happiness.

Aria inherited a century-long battle among the merfolk nations along with the crown, but a tenacious human looking for restitution could change everything.

A sapling of a dying magical tree desires revenge before the flames turn to love and grant Pinocchia her one wish—to be a real girl.

A princess becomes a pauper, but then must fight to save her kingdom.

Leukemia may have stolen Rapunzel's hair but not her dreams.

When Grandma becomes the latest victim in a string of murders, the wolf just might have to be the hero.

Rumpelstilstkin is not the only criminal in the kingdom.

At the stroke of midnight the spell will break, but there's no proof that it's true love.

    

Untreatable by J. Laslie

Untreatable

By- J. Laslie

Genre- YA Dystopian

Publication Date- May 15th, 2015

People are dying...

Tahlia and Quentin live in a world where the US population is starving to death one hundred years after a government-mandated "cure" for obesity. Tahlia's ancestors escaped genetic mutation. Now she and her tribe must hide in the wilds of South Dakota to avoid being harvested for their untainted DNA. When Tahlia is captured on a supply run, she becomes a lab rat for the scientists searching for an antidote. The fate of humanity lies buried in Tahlia's genetic code, and her own survival lies in the hands of Quentin–the only son of the very doctors who want to cut her open.

Harrowing and suspenseful, Untreatable transports readers to a dystopian future where everything is not as it seems and resilience of body–and spirit–is required to survive.

 

MY TIDBITS

I've read quite a few dystopian novels, and although this is obviously a favorite genre of mine, the same general plots seem to pop up again and again. So when I picked up this one, I was really excited to see a new twist to things. 

Untreatable hits on a topic which addresses a very modern problem - obesity. I found the idea that a government would see this as a disease and try to cure it with a forced immunization an interesting twist. And that mankind would then start to kill itself off because of increased extreme under-weight problems really makes one think. 

But going beyond this new twist on the possible end of the world, the story itself was well written and had me eagerly turning one page to the next. The characters are easy to love and cheer for (or in the government's case, dislike). We get enough into the characters heads to understand their emotions as well as the reasons behind the decisions they make. There's a sweet romance, which doesn't over-power the main story line, but adds a great amount of humanity.

Summed up, this is a refreshing dystopian with all the action, intensity and emotion such a story needs. I picked it up and had no trouble staying with it to the very end.