Which was your favorite tale when you were young?
I don’t know if I had a favorite book, but I can assure you that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” always scared me, I don’t know if it was for the step-mother witchcraft or the dwarfs that helped Snow White… I think all the tale per se is quite hunting!
Poisoned is an adaptation of the book, with the same hunting atmosphere and the devil step-mother, but I don’t know if it’s this version or that reading it as an adult it’s more dark and powerful, but I couldn’t stop reading it once I started.
I liked how the author makes a naïve main character, let’s be honest, in the real tale, Snow White is not very brave, she is facing the hate from her mother-in-law and the ignorance from anyone, but she still trusts the world and that everything will be okay. In this book Sophie will have to grow-up quickly if she wants to survive, but she will learn that kindness sometimes is the best way to fight evil, not with dark magic.
I love reading tales, they all have a very interesting core that we didn’t pay enough attention to when we read it as a child and now it makes the story much more sense, but makes you wonder if they were really made for children or adults.
The author, Jennifer Donelly, has been adapting some of the most famous tales in a contemporary way and I have to admit I am hooked, I can’t wait to discover her new story, all of them are interesting and eye opening, believe me!
Ready to discover “Poisoned”?
I don’t know if I had a favorite book, but I can assure you that “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” always scared me, I don’t know if it was for the step-mother witchcraft or the dwarfs that helped Snow White… I think all the tale per se is quite hunting!
Poisoned is an adaptation of the book, with the same hunting atmosphere and the devil step-mother, but I don’t know if it’s this version or that reading it as an adult it’s more dark and powerful, but I couldn’t stop reading it once I started.
I liked how the author makes a naïve main character, let’s be honest, in the real tale, Snow White is not very brave, she is facing the hate from her mother-in-law and the ignorance from anyone, but she still trusts the world and that everything will be okay. In this book Sophie will have to grow-up quickly if she wants to survive, but she will learn that kindness sometimes is the best way to fight evil, not with dark magic.
I love reading tales, they all have a very interesting core that we didn’t pay enough attention to when we read it as a child and now it makes the story much more sense, but makes you wonder if they were really made for children or adults.
The author, Jennifer Donelly, has been adapting some of the most famous tales in a contemporary way and I have to admit I am hooked, I can’t wait to discover her new story, all of them are interesting and eye opening, believe me!
Ready to discover “Poisoned”?