Goodreads Monday

Goodreads Monday – 14 October

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We’re back with another Goodreads Monday, a weekly meme started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. This meme invites you to pick a book from your TBR and explain why you want to read it. Easy enough, right? Feel free to join in if you want to! I’ll be using a random number generator to pick my books from my insanely long GR Want-to-read list.

This week’s book is The Woodcutter by Kate Danley. I honestly really don’t remember adding this to my list on in October last year but the author’s name does ring a bell (not sure from where because I know I haven’t read her books before). This has a rating of 3.69 stars with 9k+ ratings and around 1k+ reviews.

Deep within the Wood, a young woman lies dead. Not a mark on her body. No trace of her murderer. Only her chipped glass slippers hint at her identity.

The Woodcutter, keeper of the peace between the Twelve Kingdoms of Man and the Realm of the Faerie, must find the maiden’s killer before others share her fate. Guided by the wind and aided by three charmed axes won from the River God, the Woodcutter begins his hunt, searching for clues in the whispering dominions of the enchanted unknown.

But quickly he finds that one murdered maiden is not the only nefarious mystery afoot: one of Odin’s hellhounds has escaped, a sinister mansion appears where it shouldn’t, a pixie dust drug trade runs rampant, and more young girls go missing. Looming in the shadows is the malevolent, power-hungry queen, and she will stop at nothing to destroy the Twelve Kingdoms and annihilate the Royal Fae…unless the Woodcutter can outmaneuver her and save the gentle souls of the Wood.

Blending magic, heart-pounding suspense, and a dash of folklore, The Woodcutter is an extraordinary retelling of the realm of fairy tales.

Why do I want to read it?

I LOVE re-tellings and this one sounds like it’s a magical mix of many from the fairy tale realm. I saw the author answered a question by someone asking about a fairy tale and she answered it was a Nordic fairytale, so it seems like she also includes fairy tales from other countries, and more obscure ones too. I’m definitely curious to see how all the stories will come together. My interest is piqued once more!

Have you read The Woodcutter? Do you want to?
Leave me a comment and let’s chat!

12 thoughts on “Goodreads Monday – 14 October”

  2. Wow! It sounds like a hybrid between Red Riding Hood & a Nordic myth – superrrrr intriguing! 😱 I’ve never heard of this book before but am really interested to know what you think if you pick it up!

    💛 Ngoc

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  3. Whoa, that sounds so cool. Never heard of it before, but seems like it is right up my alley. (Side note: I am so glad you used the correct form of “piqued,” because so many people accidentally use one of the other spellings for it. I think it is an under-taught set of homophones!)

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    • Thanks Kathryn! How good does it sound, right?! I’m so glad that I rediscovered it with this weekly meme. Totally would’ve forgotten about it otherwise.
      Haha, what’s the other spelling for it? Do you mean peaked or something? I realized that I’ve been using that word a lot lately actually 😂

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