I have loved the books I've read by this author in the past, so I was very excited to read this one. I have Stepsister sitting on my TBR to read as soon as I get the chance as well! And after finishing Poisoned, I'm even more eager to go back and read it, as well as hopeful for what other fairy tales this author might tackle in the future, based on things mentioned in the epilogue.While I don’t know that I’ve actually read the Brothers Grimm version of Snow White, I have read some of their other stories, like Cinderella, and so I know how dark they really are. And while this retelling definitely has a lot of the darkness in it, the world that Donnelly creates is so vivid and imaginative that I could see it in my head as I read, as if I was watching a movie. There were so many different ways of telling this story, things that were added that took the story so far behind anything it had ever been before, in my opinion. Our Snow White was named Sophie, and her stepmother and the mirror had their own evil, but there was a darker, more sinister evil behind all of it. But it wasn’t only the usual fairy tale characters, we had some other classic figures such as Death, and Fear, and Pain. A few more were even there at the end, in what I hope is leading us to some future retellings by this author.