Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Since Snow White is not one of my favorite fairy tales, I was not looking forward to the Snow White section of my Fairy Tale YA Lit class. Naturally, this section produced two of my favorite books read in the class so far (and my least favorite, but that's a whole other story).

My only real complaint about this book was I wish King Nicholas was more...I don't know, sympathetic? I mean he certainly has his moments and of course his grief over his dead wife is very sad, but ultimately I felt he was kind of one-note; of course, the same could probably be argued for Lynet and Mina, I suppose, so it's a minor complaint at most.

Overall, I liked the use of magic, the Huntsman/Magic Mirror aspects were clever, and I liked the lgbt+ aspect as well. A well crafted story about learning to love and being true to who you are; maybe that's cheesy, but hey, it's a fairy tale, and we could all use a little cheese nowadays. 4.5/5