White as Snow (Fairy Tales, book 7) by Tanith Lee

[james_davis_nicoll]

White as Snow (Fairy Tales, book 7) by Tanith Lee

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[w. dow rieder (from livejournal.com)]

Neither a horror nor a grim and dark fan, so this is probably at best a 'respect from a safe distance' book for me, no matter how skilled the prose.

[awesomeaud.livejournal.com]

I really don't need that much of a downer....

[vschanoes.livejournal.com]

I love this book and teach it every time I teach my fairy tales class. The writing is luminously beautiful, and the intertwining of Snow White with the Persephone and Demeter story is a masterstroke, I think.

It is utterly, utterly grim, though.

[siphraniax3.livejournal.com]

I agree a lot of her work is so, so dark but so beautifully written, I could never get enough of it.

[bunsen-h.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed all of the preceding books in the Fairy Tales series -- in fact, I'm in the middle of re-reading Briar Rose now. But I didn't even try this one; everything I'd heard about it made it seem thoroughly unpleasant.