I’ve found one of the best BatB retellings that I’ve ever read and can’t rave about it enough. The Rose Gate by Hanna Sandvig tells the story of a young girl named Isobel who is spending her last summer before college at home with her family when her life changes after crossing paths with a grizzly bear in the forest behind her home. The grizzly bear drags injured Isobel through a magical rose-covered gate among the trees, and she is transported into Faerie where the bear is actually a handsome prince named Leith with a curse Isobel is determined to break.
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