This refreshing and enchanting Snow white retelling, reminds readers of a common tale in a modern way, without modernising the setting.
Sophie, a kind and steely young princess releases a wolf while racing through the forest on horseback, at the expense of her own neck at the hands of her stepmother the queen. Sophie is fiercely brave and relatable and gives readers a fresh take on the princess in need of rescuing stereotype common in fairytales, despite the common word of the villagers in her kingdom.
Vivid and thrilling, this story is engaging from the first paragraph, with lots of imagery, the author grips audiences into the raw emotion right from the prologue. The second person perspective is refreshing for the prologue but the switch to the first person in the main chapters feels much more comforting and natural.
The casual narration within the text flows neatly into the rest of the storytelling, and breaks up the descriptive, content-heavy text, allowing readers to absorb the information given.
The villain is thrilling and chilling, cunning in a way only an evil queen can be, and with the addition of two princes the story takes on its own vision of Snow white
Sophie, a kind and steely young princess releases a wolf while racing through the forest on horseback, at the expense of her own neck at the hands of her stepmother the queen. Sophie is fiercely brave and relatable and gives readers a fresh take on the princess in need of rescuing stereotype common in fairytales, despite the common word of the villagers in her kingdom.
Vivid and thrilling, this story is engaging from the first paragraph, with lots of imagery, the author grips audiences into the raw emotion right from the prologue. The second person perspective is refreshing for the prologue but the switch to the first person in the main chapters feels much more comforting and natural.
The casual narration within the text flows neatly into the rest of the storytelling, and breaks up the descriptive, content-heavy text, allowing readers to absorb the information given.
The villain is thrilling and chilling, cunning in a way only an evil queen can be, and with the addition of two princes the story takes on its own vision of Snow white