Series
Woodcutter Sisters
Alethea Kontis · 4 novels · 2012–2026
Alethea Kontis's Woodcutter Sisters series opens with Enchanted, which grew out of her 2006 short story 'Sunday' and follows a woodcutter's daughter whose kiss turns a frog back into a prince, in a world where fairy-tale logic runs just beneath the surface of ordinary life. Each of the seven Woodcutter sisters, named for the days of the week, gets pulled into her own tangle of fairy-tale references and family curses across the series, continuing in Hero, Dearest, and Thieftess. The books blend numerous classic fairy tales into one connected family saga rather than retelling any single one straight.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
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By decade
- 2010s3
- 2020s1
Shape
4 novels
1 author
reads like:fairy tale retellingcursessecondary worldtimeless or unspecifiedwhimsicaladult
Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.