Half Upon a Time is the first in the series by James Riley. He takes fairy tales and pushes them to the future a bit. We get to follow the adventures of May, who is the granddaughter of Snow White, and Jack, the son of Jack of Jack in the Beanstalk. May is part of our world and only believes the fairy tales to be exactly that - fairy tales. Jack, on the other hand, lives in the world where these stories are reality. And his reality is not all that great considering who is fa

Prince of Shadows is a retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, but it is told from Benvolio’s perspective. It was published on February 4, 2014 by New American Library. The author, Rachel Caine, gives a story in the dedication of how this novel idea came about. It is cute and amusing and I am glad that Tybalt was just a cat because this novel is wonderfully awesome! Honestly, the novel is more Benvolio’s story than Romeo’s. There are bits and pieces of the play in the s

This webseries is absolutely beautiful and if you have not watched this, you should go watch it now (click here)! A warning… there may be some spoilers but I’ll do my best to keep those to that which is true to the play and not that special to the series. (Side Note: You can check out my iNR video here) Jules and Monty is a modernized retelling of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. It was written by the two actors who play Jules Caine and Romeo Montgomery, Imogen Browder and Ed