Long before she was the terror of Wonderland, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland―the infamous Queen of Hearts―she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.

This enchanting standalone story shows us just how a girl in love can turn into a heartless, terrifying queen infamous for the words “off with his head.” Her stories tout the right balance between new and familiar, between magic and relability. Marissa Meyer once again proves her prowess at retellings. “You have my heart, Jest… I can’t tell if you’re a hero or villain, but it doesn’t seem to matter. Yet in a kingdom brimming with magic and madness, nothing is as it seems and nothing goes as planned. All Cath wants is to choose her own path, be free to love Jest, and open the most wonderful bakery in Hearts. He was an impossibility.”Ĭath and Jest fall in love, in secret, with hopes that they can find a way to be together. “She felt like she could talk to him for hours, for days and months and years, and never tire of it. And during a night where her fate may have been sealed, she meets Jest-an enigmatic court jester with a penchant for the impossible. All her life she’s hoped to open her own bakery with her best friend, to be happy in a billow of powdered sugar with the warm waft of an oven at work.īut when the King of Hearts sets his eyes on Cath, her dreams begin to fracture as her parents all but force a crown on her head. We meet Lady Catherine-a girl who dreams not of crowns and gowns, of riches and power, but rather of the most wonderful cakes and pies in all of Hearts. Combining the whimsy of the familiar with the intrigue of the new, this fairy tale comes alive in ways both dazzling and heart wrenching. In Heartless, The Lunar Chronicles author Marissa Meyer imagines how a girl full of hopes and dreams becomes the ruthless Red Queen of Wonderland we’ve come to know. Buy Now: Amazon | iBooks | Barnes & Noble.Related Posts: See more fantastical adventures | fairy tale retellings.Takeaway: Magic, monsters and madness-a fractured fairy tale vividly imagined and deeply felt.

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