Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

I’m not talking morally grey character we adore. It’s told from 4 perspectives and one of those perspectives is of a literal, actual psychopath prince. This was unsettling, gut wrenching, and heartbreaking to read because it absolutely lives up to being a Brothers Grimm retelling mash up. And if he's not careful, he might not get to keep his head either. Because Albrecht should have never been allowed to sit on the throne, and Ursula is going to take his crown. As King Albrecht builds his iron rule and an army of beasts to defend his reign, Ursula is gathering the survivors and making plans to take back the kingdom. So he invades her land, slaughtering her people and most of the were beasts, and claims it for himself. And even though his sister, Ursula, is the first born, he decides that as a girl and were bear, she is unfit to rule.

However, his son, Albrecht, is not satisfied with half a kingdom. On his deathbed, King Tyran divides his land, leaving half to each of his two children-so they'll rule together. In a far away land, populated by were beasts and surrounded by a powerful forest, lies a kingdom about to be sent into chaos. There's no such thing as once upon a time. Once upon a time there was a kingdom and a forest that liked to eat men and a girl who would change everything, but not alone. This is Martha Brockenbrough's feminist twisting of the Brother Grimms' stories, Game of Thrones-style.

Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough