Winter (The Lunar Chronicles)
by:
Marissa Meyer (author)
Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781410485908 (1410485900)
ASIN: 1410485900
Publish date: 2016-01-27
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 1051
Edition language: English
„Winter“ ist der finale Band der „Lunar Chronicles“ und eine Adaption von „Schneewittchen“. Dabei war Prinzessin Winter, Marissa Meyers dunkelhäutige Version des Schneewittchens, ursprünglich nur als Nebenrolle gedacht. Meyer wollte sich eigentlich auf Levana als böse Königin und Jacin als Jäger kon...
Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mark her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won't approve of her feelings for her child...
Any sufficiently advanced technology starts to look like magic and with magic comes fairy tales and this is the conclusion of all the various tales (including Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel) and now they have to all try to defeat the evil queen...
Any sufficiently advanced technology starts to look like magic and with magic comes fairy tales and this is the conclusion of all the various tales (including Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel) and now they have to all try to defeat the evil queen...
Meyer does an admirable job of pulling this richly woven tale together. Dystopian take-the-castle efforts compose much of the runtime, with more twists and redirects than forward momentum, and a surprising amount of romance tucked in around the edges. The astonishingly creative and deep description ...