Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Hunt | 2020 | Frost Kay | Buy |
| 2 | The Rook | 2020 | Frost Kay | Buy |
| 3 | The Heir | 2021 | Frost Kay | Buy |
| 4 | The Beast | 2021 | Frost Kay | Buy |
| 5 | The Hood | 2022 | Frost Kay | Buy |
| 6 | The Wolf | 2023 | Frost Kay | Buy |
| 7 | The Healer | 2024 | Frost Kay | Buy |
The Twisted Kingdoms is Frost Kay’s series of dark fairy tale retellings. Each book takes a well-known fairy tale and reimagines it within a shared fantasy world, adding romance, danger, and moral complexity to stories that readers think they already know. The series began with The Hunt in 2020 and ran through The Healer in 2024.
The titles give away their fairy tale origins. The Beast reworks Beauty and the Beast, The Hood draws from Little Red Riding Hood, and The Wolf continues that thread. Kay keeps the recognizable bones of each story but adds her own twists, including grittier settings, more developed romance arcs, and heroines who are active participants in their own stories rather than passive figures waiting to be rescued.
With seven books in the series, The Twisted Kingdoms offers a good entry point for readers new to Frost Kay’s work. The fairy tale framework makes each book somewhat accessible on its own, though the shared world and recurring elements reward reading them in order.