Six-Gun Snow White (Paperback)

from krau0098

I am a huge Valente fan and was excited to read this retelling of Snow White by her. This was a stark, yet well done retelling of Snow White set in the Wild West. I ended up enjoying it. The whole story is set in Nevada in the gold-rush era. Initially Snow is pretty much left to her own devices a...

from delphica

I liked it more than three stars would usually indicate, but it's a very short book and while that is sometimes a great thing, in this case for me, it was too short to create any real emotional connection with the characters or their situations. It's basically elements of the Snow White story pla...

from chavala

This was a fun and creative take on Snow White. I love Valente's writing style, loose and flowing and full of metaphors with a punch. I was of course hoping for more happiness after she left home, but she did get adventures aplenty. Trigger warning for both absent and abusive parenting.

from nx74defiant

An interesting and odd mix of western and fairy tale. Snow White retold set in the west. Snow White has a white father and a native American mother. Her step-mother call her Snow White to mock her for not being able to have white skin. Beautiful magical descriptions and imagery.

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This short novel (at 167 pages, it's a bit long to be a novella) is Valente in her fairy-tale mode, retelling the Snow White story as a Western. Snow White is the out-of-wedlock daughter of a rich silver-mine owner and a Native American woman-thus, by ancient American usage, definitely not white....