Name: After the Forest
Rating: 3.45 (10 reviews)

Kell Woods

After the Forest

After the Forest is a dark and enchanting fantasy debut from Kell Woods that explores the repercussions of a childhood filled with magic and a young woman contending with the truth of “happily ever after.”

Ginger. Honey. Cinnamon. Flour.

Twenty years after the witch in the gingerbread house, Greta and Hans are struggling to get by. Their mother and stepmother are long dead, Hans is deeply in debt from gambling, and the countryside lies in ruin, its people starving in the aftermath of a brutal war.

Greta has a secret, though: the witch's grimoire, hidden away and whispering in Greta's ear for the past two decades, and the recipe inside that makes the best gingerbread you've ever tasted. As long as she can bake, Greta can keep her small family afloat. 

But in a village full of superstition, Greta and her mysteriously addictive gingerbread, not to mention the rumors about her childhood misadventures, is a source of gossip and suspicion.

And now, dark magic is returning to the woods and Greta's magic—magic she is still trying to understand—may be the only thing that can save her. If it doesn't kill her first.

A wonderfully dark and magical fairytale retelling about an all grown up Hans (Hansel) and Greta (Gretel).

This told such a detailed and well throught-out reimagined scenario of what happened to Hansel and Gretel after the forest and the witch had been defeated. It weaves together all of the fairytale magic from the original tale and makes it believable, heartfelt, and closes off all lingering questions of "what happened next".

Victoria Justice

A wonderfully dark and magical fairytale retelling about an all grown up Hans (Hansel) and Greta (Gretel).

This told such a detailed and well throught-out reimagined scenario of what happened to Hansel and Gretel after the forest and the witch had been defeated. It weaves together all of the fairytale magic from the original tale and makes it believable, heartfelt, and closes off all lingering questions of "what happened next".

After the Forest

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