What did he plan on doing with this child that he was bargaining for? “I wanted to know why Rumpelstiltskin wanted the baby. I felt like there were some really big plot holes in this tale. But it was also one of the stories that I think frustrated me the most.

“It was one of my favourite stories growing up.

She started to read these tales in their original form, and Rumpelstiltskin made an early impression. And what else is Disney not telling me that they can be so dark and so gory, and so weird.” “But that just opened up this huge burning curiosity to know more about these stories. But around five or six years old, I was given my first book of fairy tale stories, the original versions, and I remember reading them and being slightly discouraged, maybe to learn that they were so different from the movies that I was watching. “I grew up with Disney as so many of us do. She has always had a deep love of fairy tales, she tells Kathryn Ryan. Then came an Alice in Wonderland prequel - Heartless her own superhero series, Renegades and last year she released Instant Karma, which is being adapted for TV by HBO. She followed it up with three more instalments in her Lunar Chronicles series. Soon Serilda realizes that there is more than one secret hidden in the castle walls, including an ancient curse that must be broken if she hopes to end the tyranny of the king and his wild hunt forever.Meyer's debut novel, Cinder (2012) was a young adult science fiction tale loosely based on Cinderella that became a New York Times bestseller.

Love isn’t meant to be part of the bargain.

In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. When one of Serilda’s outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. Long ago cursed by the god of lies, a poor miller’s daughter has developed a talent for spinning stories that are fantastical and spellbinding and entirely untrue. Marissa Meyer, #1 best-bestselling author, returns to the fairytale world with this haunting retelling of Rumpelstiltskin.

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