Echo North is a brilliant and magical retelling of East of the Sun and West of the Moon, while also pulling inspiration from the stories of Cupid & Pysche, as well as Tam Lin. I read this in less than a day and was completely enthralled with everything about it.

Echo is the daughter of a bookseller that has always struggled to find her place and purpose in the world. She loves her family, her books and is a devourer of knowledge - but a fateful encounter with a wolf as a child left her face terribly scarred. Because of this Echo has experienced terrible rumors and unnecessary cruelty.

Tragically, Echo's father goes missing for months, until Echo, lost in the woods herself, finds him half-frozen with the wolf from her childhood by his side. She makes a deal with the wolf to live with him in his enchanted house for one year. The only rule is that Echo may never look upon him between midnight and dawn.

I LOVED the wolf's magical house in this book, the stories within stories in the mirror library, the growing companionship and dependence between Echo and the wolf, Echo's adventures with Hal and Mokosh, the budding romance, as well as the mystery surrounding how to save the characters under "her" enchantments. If you've read the stories that inspire Echo North, its no surprise as to where the plot will take us, however Meyer puts her own twists into the story, creating a refreshing and new take on time honored classics.

Echo North is one of those books that drops breadcrumbs along the way, while you're fully engrossed in the beauty and mystery of the story. They are there to piece together or you can let the answers come to you, while the story sweeps you off your feet.

I highly recommend this one!

Echo North is a book which I thought the first half was good, and the second half was even better. It's one of those books where a single revelation makes you re-think the whole story and you almost want to start over from the beginning. Echo is a sympathetic character. In many ways she's the good girl of the story who was disfigured by a wolf attack. And in an almost Beauty and the Beast scenario, she goes to live with said wolf to save her father's life. But there Echo realizes that nothing is what it seems.

Echo North is a retelling of "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" and seems to incorporate all these other threads from stories. But what I adored about the latter half of the book, was that all these seeds and relationships took on a whole new light. Echo North is for those who love stories and a love that can cut through illusions.

East of the Sun, West of the Moon meets other fairy tales in this wonderfully written book. The characters were flawed and perfect. I just want to share this with everyone.
The best part was the mirror books. Why is this not real. It was so well thought out and something that I would love to explore.
Overall the romance, back story, and how it all fit together was perfect. I can't praise this enough.

Enchanting, magical, mysterious. An inspired new spin on an old tale that will capture a reader's attention until the very end.

This was an amazing read! I loved how elements of fairytales were woven in and recognizable. I could not stop reading because I wasn't sure how it was going to end!

I can't even describe how excited I was to receive an e-Galley for this book after I'd heard so much about it.

This was a lush, dark, fantastical fairy-tale retelling stemming from the Norwegian story "Easy of the Sun, West of the Moon", with gorgeous prose and a clever, headstrong protagonist everyone dreams of reading about. The setting, however, was the star of the show. A lovingly written, harsh and icy Russian wilderness you can feel seeping into your bones, and a castle pulled right out of the pages of "Beauty and the Beast". A simply stunning book.

This fairy tale re-telling builds on more than just a tenuous connection between Echo and her mysterious suitor and instead brings them together from their flaws: Echo's longing for self acceptance and Wolf's overwhelming guilt about his past. The two go hand-in-hand and the story is as brilliantly woven as the threads that hold the castle together. Drawing from multiple fairy tales and a library full of magical mirrors, Echo North was a gust of fresh air in a sometimes tired genre.

This is a gorgeous rendition of many fairy tales, Hansel and Gretel., Red Riding Hood, and other, older darker tales that are part of our story telling past. This book mesmerizes with beautiful and poetic prose, I’ve already recommended it to many like minded readers and see a prominent place for it on the shelves of my collection