Can three lonely, wounded hearts make a whole?
Johan had resigned himself to spending his life alone. Until them. Until two sets of scared but fierce amber eyes peer at him through curtains of silky white hair, and Johan’s heart takes on a new beat. A beat he can’t ignore.
Despite escaping their captors, a dark cloud looms over Elias and Henrik’s heads. They were bought and paid for, after all.
However, their luck appears to change when they cautiously accept the offer of a roof over their heads from a kind but silent shoemaker. Only, it was meant to be a stopping-off point, a place to re-group before they start their new life. They had each other, and they were not supposed to fall for him.
Struggling to recover from invisible wounds, the two elves can’t always bear the weight of each other’s burdens. But maybe he can…
When it becomes the talk of the town that a local, unassuming shoemaker is selling elf-made shoes, will they be able to evade their captor once more?
More importantly, will they ever truly belong to themselves again?
This GriMM Tales retelling is an MMM romance featuring two kind but dramatic elves healing from their time in captivity and a shoemaker who yearns for connection in a world that has ostracised him for his inability to speak. Sometimes, a whole is three-thirds instead of two halves.
Each book set in the GriMM fairytale world can be read as a standalone and contains its own Happily Ever After story. Though you’ll definitely want to read each one, as the tales are connected to each other in multiple magical ways.
THE FACTS
📕 Poly relationship
📘 Elves! and Magic!
📙 Adventure, darkness, challenges
📗 spicy and loving
📒 special appearances of characters from previous books
📓 beautiful covers!!!!
THE GOOD BITS
This is a beautiful retelling of the original fairy tale. Darker perhaps, but softened by a lovely poly relationship.
At the beginning of the novel, Elias and Henrik have just managed to escape the slavers who have kept them captive for years. Bought and paid for they were restricted from using their Elven magic and forced into labour. Beaten and near starvation… The two elves are given the briefest opportunity to escape by a remarkably well-placed arrow. This is when their struggle really begins.
The problem with being considered an entity to be owned is that the two elves find themselves on the run from their captors and there doesn’t seem to be any respite in sight.
A shoemaker named Johan is living a solitary life – he’s no family left and his inability to speak most of the time leaves him ostracized from the world that continues to move around him.
Things begin to change for all these characters when they meet. The elves, hungry, exhausted, still cut off from their magic and pursued by their captors… take a chance and sneak into the shop of Johan.
What’s wonderful about this book is the way each of these characters is so different. Johan is so genuine and solid, down to earth. The fact that he has resigned himself to living a life alone is really what enables him to open up to the elves in the first place. Elias has been through a lot of it is reflected by his mood. He can be a delight and a challenge all within a matter of moments. Henrik is a more silent elf. He too has faced challenges but he has trouble believing that Elias is with him because he chose it. They were forced together after all.
Johan becomes the glue that bonds these three together very quickly. I loved the way this wasn’t smooth sailing. Relationships are tough! They do require work contrary to what some people think. There is a lot of trust that needs to be built and at the same time, there is danger lurking.
This is a lovely retelling. I was quite fond of all of them by the end of the novel and I hope to see them in future books!
I am loving the way the novels in this series weave together seamlessly! The characters from other books sneak in and the pieces of past stories suddenly make more sense as more is revealed!
THE SERIES
Book 01 – Little Red Riding Hood – my review
Book 03 – Hansel and Gerhardt – my review
Book 04 – The Elves and the Shoemaker – my review
Book 06 – The Frog Prince – my review
Book 07 – Rumpelstilzchen – my review
Book 08 – Snow White and the Seven Little Miners – my review
THE LINKS
I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for my honest review.
Kinzie Things 
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