This book is a retelling of the fairytale of Snow White and Rose Red. For those of you unfamiliar with this fairytale (like I was), here's the link to the Wiki page that explains it: Snow White and Rose Red.At the beginning of the book, we meet Liga, a girl who's 15 years old and lives with only her...
Okay, to be fair, I will state that I didn't finish this book, but... I just couldn't read it anymore.I'm really disappointed with this book because I heard so many good things about it. Everywhere I turned it was nothing but praises, but after trying to trek through it, I cannot agree with all the ...
I guess I didn't really like this book because I kept putting it down to read something else. This book is a retelling of Snow White and Rose Red, but I think it might have been better if the author hadn't tried to force the backbone of the fairy tale into her story of dream and reality, fear and br...
This book began with 50 straight pages of the adolescent protagonist being sexually abused, first by her father, and then, after his death, by men from her village. It was stomach-churning. While I understand that this sort of abuse went on quite commonly both today and in the past (I think this was...
Really dark and disturbing, but also lovely in it's own. I always thought the story of Rose Red and Snow White (not to be confused with the story of Snow White, you know, the one with the dwarfs) needed a little bit of sprucing up. It was always one of my least favorite Brother's Grim stories.To me,...
From the 2008 Tiptree Award Honor List: This novel is very much about desire and the tensions and relationships-which are sometimes horrific-between the genders. There are not a lot of books about adolescent mothers and their children so this was a great addition to the canon.
by Margo LanaganI read the first part of this book in a kind of horrified fascination. I couldn't believe that things could possibly get any worse for Liga, and then they did. So, this book is not for the faint of heart. Really, truly. It's like Deerskin, both content-wise and in the "I'm sure i...
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