6 Best retellings books like The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice by Lisa DeSelm

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The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

By: Lisa DeSelm

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young girl is commissioned to build an assassin for a dark-hearted tyrant. Impressed by the wo…

If you liked the retellings plot in The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice by Lisa DeSelm , here is a list of 6 books like this:

Cover of The Queen of Blood  (The Queens of Renthia, #1) by Sarah Beth Durst

1. The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)

By: Sarah Beth Durst

3.89

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

An idealistic young student and a banished warrior become allies in a battle to save their realm in… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Beth Durst's The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken doll, its pink dress streaked with dirt and its pottery face cracked. There was always a broken doll…"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)

"Know me, for I am death to all oath breaker, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without the dawn, the winter without spring. I am pain to your pleasure, sile…"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)

"Don't trust the fire, for it will burn you. Don't trust the ice, for it will freeze you. Don't trust the water, for it will drown you. Don't trust the air, for it will choke you. Don't trust the eart…"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)

"Know me," Ven said as he drove knife after knife into the spirit's body, "for I am death to all oathbreakers, promise renders, and betrayers. Know me, for I am the last sunset, the night without dawn…"

-Sarah Beth Durst, The Queen of Blood (The Queens of Renthia, #1)

Cover of Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5) by Marissa Meyer

2. Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this stunning bridge book between Cressand Winterin the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Leva… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's Fairest (The Lunar Chronicles, #3.5) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
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3. Hunted

By: Meagan Spooner

3.81

Format: 225 pages, Kindle Edition

Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones--and in her blood. Though she grew up with the city's … read more

Similar categories in Meagan Spooner's Hunted book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy

4. The Trumpeter of Krakow

By: Eric P. Kelly

3.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

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5. The Midnight Dance

By: Nikki Katz

4.34

Format: 592 pages, ebook

When the music stops, the dance begins. Seventeen-year-old Penny is a lead dancer at the Grande Tea… read more

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6. Girls Made of Snow and Glass

By: Melissa Bashardoust

4.01

Format: 532 pages, Hardcover

Frozenmeets The Bloody Chamberin this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At s… read more

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7. With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2)

By: Marissa Meyer

3.90

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

After being magically gifted with incredible luck, a boy discovers this gift just may be a curse wh… read more

Similar categories in Marissa Meyer's With a Little Luck (Fortuna Beach, #2) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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8. The Eyes and the Impossible

By: Dave Eggers

4.25

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The illustrated story of a dog who unwittingly becomes a hero to a park full of animals. Johanne… read more

Similar categories in Dave Eggers's The Eyes and the Impossible book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"What monster would turn up his snout at the thought-through help of all the friends he had?"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

"Every reasonable creature knows that the worst thing any creature can do all day is think of themselves. If there are troubles in your mind, you should think first of the troubles of others; it is th…"

-Dave Eggers, The Eyes and the Impossible

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9. Promchanted

By: Morgan Matson

3.69

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Two modern teens. One classic fairy tale. Absolutely no cell service. Stella Griffin doesn’t b… read more

Similar categories in Morgan Matson's Promchanted book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Whenever I tried to wear a low ponytail, I inevitably looked like a Founding Father. And not the attractive ones, like Hamilton."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"Promise,' Nisha had agreed. She'd held out her pinky and we'd linked them to get and shaken, entering what every fourth-grader knows is a binding contract."

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"If you like someone, I realized in one incandescent flash, you liked them in a disgusting dungeon next to a literal pile of bones. You liked them everywhere. Because it wasn't about the setting-it wa…"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

"You can't stop people from things that hurt and are hard, Stella. You can't reroute to avoid pain at all costs. You can't plan your way around everything. Sometimes, you just have to go through with …"

-Morgan Matson, Promchanted

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10. Highfire

By: Eoin Colfer

3.68

Format: 377 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Artemis Fowl series comes a hilarious and high-oc… read more

Similar categories in Eoin Colfer's Highfire book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • young adult
  • audiobook
"What a peach of a night this had turned out to be. Everett fucking Moreau: master planner. Like that little French guy who used to get with tall ladies to prove a point. Napoleon. But not like him at…"

-Eoin Colfer, Highfire

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11. Seeking Persephone (The Lancaster Family, #1)

By: Sarah M. Eden

4.17

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

When Persephone Lancaster receives a marriage proposal from the ill-tempered Duke of Kielder, she r… read more

Similar categories in Sarah M. Eden's Seeking Persephone (The Lancaster Family, #1) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2) by Karen Hawkins

12. A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2)

By: Karen Hawkins

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Ava Dove—the sixth of the seven famed Dove sisters and owner of Ava Dove’s Landscaping and Specialt… read more

Similar categories in Karen Hawkins's A Cup of Silver Linings (Dove Pond #2) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • magic
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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13. Snowglobe

By: Soyoung Park

3.62

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

In a world of constant winter, only the citizens of the climate-controlled city of Snowglobe can es… read more

Similar categories in Soyoung Park's Snowglobe book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Drops of Gold (The Jonquil Brothers, #2) by Sarah M. Eden

14. Drops of Gold (The Jonquil Brothers, #2)

By: Sarah M. Eden

4.21

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

Layton Jonquil has spent the four years since his wife's death in the isolated sanctuary of his hom… read more

Similar categories in Sarah M. Eden's Drops of Gold (The Jonquil Brothers, #2) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • fiction
Cover of Elf Dog and Owl Head by M.T. Anderson

15. Elf Dog and Owl Head

By: M.T. Anderson

3.92

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A Newbery Honor Book A magical adventure about a boy and his dog—or a dog and her boy—and a fore… read more

Similar categories in M.T. Anderson's Elf Dog and Owl Head book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1) by Kat Cho

16. Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1)

By: Kat Cho

3.76

Format: 429 pages, Hardcover

A fresh and addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul. Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has … read more

Similar categories in Kat Cho's Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Sometimes you need to stop thinking so hard about what you get out of life and have fun."

-Kat Cho, Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1)

"Well, dear, sometimes the universe works in odd ways, but family does not always come about through blood."

-Kat Cho, Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1)

"She’d read books that said two lovers’ hearts could race as one. This wasn’t true for Miyoung. Her heart chased Jihoon’s, speeding in a breakneck sprint to catch up."

-Kat Cho, Wicked Fox (Gumiho, #1)

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17. Midnight Strikes

By: Zeba Shahnaz

3.59

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

In this explosive fantasy debut with a time-loop twist, a provincial girl must work with a roguish … read more

Similar categories in Zeba Shahnaz's Midnight Strikes book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
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18. We Rule the Night

By: Claire Eliza Bartlett

3.73

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Two girls use forbidden magic to fly and fight–for their country and for themselves–in this rivetin… read more

Similar categories in Claire Eliza Bartlett's We Rule the Night book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"The men were afraid she could no longer do her job. They were afraid that she'd never been able to do her job. That every mistake she'd ever made was because she was a girl, and not because she was h…"

-Claire Eliza Bartlett, We Rule the Night

Cover of The Glass Scientists: Volume One (The Glass Scientists, #1) by S.H. Cotugno

19. The Glass Scientists: Volume One (The Glass Scientists, #1)

By: S.H. Cotugno

4.56

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

The gothic worlds of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, and more collide in this graphic novel se… read more

Similar categories in S.H. Cotugno's The Glass Scientists: Volume One (The Glass Scientists, #1) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • retellings
  • fantasy
  • young adult
Cover of The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice by Lisa DeSelm

20. The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

By: Lisa DeSelm

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A young girl is commissioned to build an assassin for a dark-hearted tyrant. Impressed by the wo… read more

Similar categories in Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • romance
  • fairy tales
  • retellings
  • fairy tale retellings
  • magic
  • young adult
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Unico: Awakening (Unico, #1) by Samuel Sattin

21. Unico: Awakening (Unico, #1)

By: Samuel Sattin

4.30

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

A dynamic reimagining of Osamu Tezuka's classic UNICO manga for a new generation of readers. UNICO … read more

Similar categories in Samuel Sattin's Unico: Awakening (Unico, #1) book and Lisa DeSelm's The Puppetmaster’s Apprentice

  • fantasy

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