Snow White and Rose Red, (Paperback)

from CornerDemon

What a waste. I had to really hunt this book down, and finally had to special order it. I love fairy tales, and I love Patricia C. Wrede, so I thought this would be a good fit, even if it wasn't perfect. To my disappointment, however, this book was barely worth finishing. To start off with, the d...

from Krumbs

This is now officially my least favorite of her books. Normally I'm completely immersed in the world created by this author, but I just couldn't get into this one. I don't think it was only the language; it's also that the story itself isn't meant to be this long. It's a rather short fairy tale t...

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Not my favorite. The old English-style language was distracting and the story seemed to drag with lots of telling instead of showing. I read this decades ago but forgot until halfway through the book.

from jen.e.moore

For some reason when I first bought this book in, maybe, the sixth grade my mother wouldn't let me read it right away. I'm halfway through it again and I have no idea why; maybe there's sex in the end. I can't recall.I appear to be on a Faerie kick lately, though; I blame Elizabeth Bear. This boo...

from the1butterfly

Patricia C. Wrede is so talented! This is a favorite fairy tale of mine, and she told the tale in a way that made sense. It would have been an awesome story weaving together the land of faery, Elizabethan England, a bit of romance, and a lot of magic, even without the fairy tale background. The p...