The book was true to the original Snow White tale in its adaptation but I seem to be a person who appreciates even more of an original twist with an adaption with my retellings. I’ve never read Catherynne Valente so I had no idea what to expect and the writing style was just so different than I thought it was going to be. To be fair to the book (and to myself, I guess), I wasn’t really expecting the book to read like it did and I think I wouldn’t have picked it up at this very point in my life because I have too much going on to really appreciate something like this. This is the same way that I felt about UPROOTED - I could clearly see the beauty in the words there but I just wasn’t connecting with them. It’s one of those where I’ve seen friends rave about it and then I feel uncouth for not feeling the same way. I just had a serious disconnect with this book. Filled with fascinating glimpses through the fabled looking glass and a close-up look at hard living in the gritty gun-slinging West, readers will be enchanted by this story at once familiar and entirely new. After being hidden for years, a very wicked stepmother finally gifts her with the name Snow White, referring to the pale skin she will never have. This girl has been born into a world with no place for a half-native, half-white child. With her mother's death in childbirth, so begins a heroine's tale equal parts heartbreak and strength. Genres: Adult, Magical Realism, Western, Retellingįind it on the web: Buy from Amazon // Goodreads Date Completed: December 7, 2016Ī plain-spoken, appealing narrator relates the history of her parents - a Nevada silver baron who forced the Crow people to give up one of their most beautiful daughters, Gun That Sings, in marriage to him.
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