Review: Snow White Lies

[naturalbri]

Oh God, how do I even describe a book like Snow White Lies?


Addicting – Highly.


Snarky – Of course.


Stay Up All Night To Finish – Hell Yes.


Worth it – Undoubtably.


I was involved in the beta reads for SWL, and was head over heels the moment I dove in, and there was no cure. I was completely smitten and wholly addicted. I have read a lot by Sarah J Pepper, and there is one thing I can say for sure – you will never read anything like this anywhere else. She takes the fairy tales you think you know, and gives you the real, true, adult version, and damn, it is good.


With SWL I loved so many things. Firstly, Pepper took the story and mixed it up a bit. No longer is it just bam, this happened, move on. You are taken on a journey, over several hundred years, bound to the wishes of the Queen. It is intense. Pepper chose to have the timeline jump between past an present, and it is lovely. You meet characters in the ‘present’ and the flip to the ‘past’ and learn so much more about their true personalities and pasts. It gives the characters and depth that truly makes you feel as though you know them. You bond with them and learn to love or hate them. I found myself so linked with the story that I couldn’t stop reading. I just had to know who the characters would turn out to be and what happened to them.


Secondly, the characters in Pepper’s version aren’t exactly as they are in the fairy tale you’ve heard. I liked this, but what I loved was that I was able to read along, meet a new character, find out about them and their lives, and connect them with the fairy tale. I found myself smiling as I made each connection, loving that the fairy tale was piecing together. Only….how would it end?


We know how the child’s version ends, but we all know that fairy tales never end so happy in the real world…or do they? As we read along, the Mirror and White have an encounter, and it changes her forever. Together with the Huntsman and another, we travel toward the end of our journey, it is so exciting, I couldn’t stop reading, but alas, this is not quite the end. Snow White has more to tell us.


I


Cannot


Wait!

[Momlovesbooks]

This makes me want to get the book and start reading it right now! My daughter and I watch the tv series Once Upon A Time. It mixes up the characters and story lines also. We really enjoy it so I think I'll like this style of book! It's next on my "to read" list!

[Eyre-thee-well]

Great review! You obviously loved the book and you convey it well. I have a lot on my reading list and am trying to increase from this genre--another one I need to add.

[literarycat]

Sounds like a book I could really sink my teeth into. I am adding it to my list to find at the library (I have no more room for new books LOL). Thanks for the review I can't wait to find it.