This fairy tale re-telling builds on more than just a tenuous connection between Echo and her mysterious suitor and instead brings them together from their flaws: Echo's longing for self acceptance and Wolf's overwhelming guilt about his past. The two go hand-in-hand and the story is as brilliantly woven as the threads that hold the castle together. Drawing from multiple fairy tales and a library full of magical mirrors, Echo North was a gust of fresh air in a sometimes tired genre.

This is a gorgeous rendition of many fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel., Red Riding Hood, and other, older darker tales that are part of our story telling past. This book mesmerizes with beautiful and poetic prose, I’ve already recommended it to many like minded readers and see a prominent place for it on the shelves of my collection