Friday, July 20, 2018

Fairest of All:

Fairest of All: A Tale of the Wicked Queen by: Serena Valentino
Fiction: Fantasy, E-Book
E-book Count:26
Book Count:36

Another category of the reading challenge is a book about a villain or anti-hero.  Which is why I picked up this book on Snow White, told from the perspective of her step-mother, the wicked queen.  It is a Disney story and so goes mostly off the movie Snow White and not any of the other  fairy-tale versions.  In this book it starts out with a non-evil queen: who do to tragedies in her life, a familial relationship with magic, outside forces actively pushing her to evil, and possible some mental illness ends up being the evil queen that we see in the movie.  She starts out much differently, answering questions of how the king married her in the first place.  And it also deals with how she got the magic mirror.  

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