Stealing Snow
Reminiscent of Wicked and Maleficent, in Stealing Snow, seventeen-year-old Snow escapes a mental institution in upstate New York and ends up lost in Algid, a Winterland of ice. Confronted with a past she never knew she’d had, in a strange world that mirrors her dreams, Snow meets the River Witch...
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Reminiscent of Wicked and Maleficent, in Stealing Snow, seventeen-year-old Snow escapes a mental institution in upstate New York and ends up lost in Algid, a Winterland of ice. Confronted with a past she never knew she’d had, in a strange world that mirrors her dreams, Snow meets the River Witch who tells of a prophecy: Snow must save this mysterious frozen land from the e
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Format: Hardcover
Edition language: English
I love a good fairy tale retelling, and recall enjoying Paige's first published novel, Dorothy Must Die. This was just not good. Fortunately, I checked it out of the library, because had I bought it, I would have been annoyed. I read the first 40%, and then skipped to the end. There is a love-rh...
First, the names in this aren't my favorite. I mean, Snow? Seriously. Yes, she controls the snow. Sure. But Paige really could have come up with something better than Snow. And Jagger? Like, hey, look at me. I'm a bad ass. Nope. And Algid. Sucks. The names just suck. Period. Moving on. The pacing at...
To be honest, I am pretty disappointed by this book. I did like the world the book is set in and the main plot idea. I don't like the way the romance is done in the book and how everything seems to happen a bit too conveniently and somethings without a clear explanation why it happened. After long d...
To be honest, I am pretty disappointed by this book. I did like the world the book is set in and the main plot idea. I don't like the way the romance is done in the book and how everything seems to happen a bit too conveniently and somethings without a clear explanation why it happened. After long d...
I received a copy from Netgalley. I requested this title on a bit of a whim. I was less than impressed with the author’s debut novel Dorothy Must Die, which I read about 200 pages of and gave up.I really wanted to give the author another chance as sometimes while I've hated first novels, I've real...