Girls made of snow and glass

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Melissa Bashardoust: Girls made of snow and glass (2017)

375 pages

English language

Published Nov. 18, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-250-07773-8
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OCLC Number:
961001872

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2 stars (1 review)

"Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she'll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen's image, at her father's order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather …

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2 stars

the idea was interesting and i loved the premise of two girls being made of something. the plot was interesting too because i thought it would be two girls fighting for the throne.

however, as i was reading this book, i felt more annoyed by the characters. annoyed by nicholas because he can't seem to get over his dead wife and doesn't even want to move on. annoyed at gregory because of his cruelty and his belief that everything he is doing is right. annoyed at mina because she can't get over her jealousy to even take care of lynet or even realize that she doesn't need to be queen. and especially at lynet for thinking that she could escape what she was meant to be. i don't know, the characters annoyed me, the story was too slow, and it didn't really satisfy me as i wanted it to be. …

Subjects

  • Mothers and daughters
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Fiction
  • Magic
  • Queens

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