Read A-Likes: Grimm & Once Upon a Time

Since the attack that killed their grandmother and left older sister Scarlett scarred and missing an eye, sisters Scarlett and Rose have grown into lethal werewolf killers. Scarlett lives for the hunt and has made it her life’s work to rid the world of the Fenris, werewolves who prey on unsuspecting young girls. But Rose fights out of sense of duty to the sister she loves and longs for a life outside of hunting. Things become further complicated when Rose begins to realize that she is falling in love with their hunting partner, Silas. As attacks on young girls begin to increase, Rose, Scarlett, Silas face their biggest challenge.

A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.

Sometimes retellings take an old story and recast it in a modern setting; in other cases you get the same setting but a new perspective. With his character Jacob Marlowe, Glen Duncan does a little of both. Jacob Marlowe is a werewolf – a dangerous, women eating werewolf – but he lives in our world and we get to hear his story in his words. The story opens with Jacob learning that he is the last of his kind and is being hunted by a group seeking to rid the world of all paranormal creatures. But instead of going on the offensive, Jacob finds that he can’t summon the energy to care. Readers will find that even with his violent tendencies, they care about what happens to this very human werewolf.

Two years after sixteen-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss.

Gregory brings us a the world of Oz as we never knew it before. Dorothy and the other beloved characters factor slightly into the story, with the narrative focusing on the life of a small, green girl and how, in spite of her kind and earnest nature, came to be known as the "wicked witch". Readers of fantasy will become absorbed in Maguires creative reimagining of Oz and the characters who inhabit it.

Did you ever wonder my Cinderella never stood up for herself and why she always did what her evil step-mother and awful step-sisters asked of her? What if it wasn't because she was so utterly good and kind, but because a fairy had put an obedience spell on her making it impossible for her to disobey? Read this book and discover a spunky Cinderella who is lovely enough to land a prince, smart enough to save herself, kind enough to sacrifice her own happiness, and strong enough to break a curse.

When Elizabeth, a lonely girl with a mean stepmother, begins work at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository" she soon discovers that there is more to working at the library then she bargained for. Deep in the basement is a well kept secret – the Grimm Collection – which Elizabeth soon discovers is home to magical items thought to exist only in fairytales. But something about the collection is amiss, and soon Elizabeth finds herself drawn into a dangerous mystery that she, with the help of her new found friends at the library, must solve or risk losing the magic of the collection and parts of themselves.

Snow White is the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen who is out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman who was dispatched to kill her.

Valerie is a beautiful young woman torn between two men. She is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry the wealthy Henry. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter are planning to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older sister has been killed by the werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village.

Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which is something he considers impossible.

When the kingdom's most wanted--and most charming--bandit Flynn Rider hides in a mysterious tower, the last thing he expects to find is Rapunzel, a spirited teen with an unlikely superpower--70 feet of magical golden hair! Together, the unlikely duo set off on a fantastic journey filled with surprising heroes, laughter and suspense

19th-century "folklore collectors," Wilhem and Jacob Grimm are con artists who perform bogus exorcisms of "evil enchantments" while traveling from village to village in French-occupied Germany. The two soon find themselves ensnared in a genuinely supernatural crisis involving the curse of the Mirror Queen and other such fantastical marvels as the Big Bad Wolf, the Gingerbread Man, and other truly enchanted flora and fauna. A manic villain and a serious fantasy involving the beautiful Angelika, proves to be the Grimm Brothers' most reliable ally.

Special Disney presentation of the classic musical of Cinderella, who suffers the torments of her wicked stepmother and spoiled stepsisters.

A reclusive ogre and a chatterbox donkey go on a quest to rescue a princess for a tyrannical lord.

Set in 1944 Spain, against the backdrop of the anti-Franco guerrilla warfare. When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.