h this was so good. So so amazing. After reading Stepsister, a Cinderella retelling by the same author, I went into this with a lot of expectations. This book made me love Snow White. It was off to a slow start for me and I thought it was going to be another Snow White retelling I'd end up not liking. However, Jennifer Donnelly did a madness here. She broke down the old tale into bits and took each one and remade it, and rewrote it into something beautiful. The way she rewrote the dwarves, the Magic Mirror, and the Queen's attempts on Sophie's life, and so many other parts of the story. In her style with Stepsister, she added her own original twists and elements to the story to make it shine.
Snow White isn't my favorite fairytale princess by any means, because I feel like she was so dumb. I read a Snow White retelling some months ago that I just didn't like. Snow White reiterations all over books and even TV mostly annoy me, and even in one of my favorite fairy tale retellings on TV, Once Upon a Time, the character of Snow White wasn't my fave. This book made me like Snow White a little more, even though some of what I didn't like about many other Snow Whites over literature and TV were still here, and even a character in the book pointed it out - stop being stupid. I always felt her so dumb, and I'm glad she grew out of that in this book.
I also really appreciate that romance wasn't at the forefront of this book. It played into many parts of the book, but it wasn't majorly a romance book. It was more of a girl's journey towards finding and following her heart.
If you're like me and you love fantasies and fairytale retellings, this is a book you'd love!
Snow White isn't my favorite fairytale princess by any means, because I feel like she was so dumb. I read a Snow White retelling some months ago that I just didn't like. Snow White reiterations all over books and even TV mostly annoy me, and even in one of my favorite fairy tale retellings on TV, Once Upon a Time, the character of Snow White wasn't my fave. This book made me like Snow White a little more, even though some of what I didn't like about many other Snow Whites over literature and TV were still here, and even a character in the book pointed it out - stop being stupid. I always felt her so dumb, and I'm glad she grew out of that in this book.
I also really appreciate that romance wasn't at the forefront of this book. It played into many parts of the book, but it wasn't majorly a romance book. It was more of a girl's journey towards finding and following her heart.
If you're like me and you love fantasies and fairytale retellings, this is a book you'd love!