This is a hard review to write. It took me a long time to read the book--which is really just a novella--because every few pages I had to set it aside for Feelings reasons. Valente has so much to say about so many important things, and she says them all so beautifully. Snow White suffers as a min...
You’re in a story and the body writing it is an asshole.There are stories and there are characters. Then, you also have stories with characters and characters with stories.But what Valente does is entirely different. She creates her characters, and they move on, swirl around, slowly and surely coale...
I wanted to like this book, I really did. The only books by Valente I have read are the Fairyland series, which I love. I guess this would be her first 'adult' book I have tried of hers. And I really didn't care for it. The story is sometimes vague and choppy. At times it almost feels like an outlin...
Sometimes Valente's works work for me and sometimes they don't. This one didn't so much. I can't pinpoint why exactly, particularly because it started out so well. Still, it was a decent enough novel.
This was a short and different sort of re-telling of the story of Snow White (whith little tidbits of Snow White and Rose Red thrown in). I liked the narrative voice. I think this book was what I wanted from Bloody Chamber - it was feminist without being in your face. No simpering princess in thi...
4.5This was a rough and tumble and dark as hell re-telling of Snow White. Taking place in the Wild West with a kind of magic that is dark and subtle, this book is not for kids. It's a tale of survival at all costs and achieving freedom. However, that freedom that is so sought after comes with a tang...
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