REVIEW: "Snow White" by Alice Callisto & Jeanette Rose

"Snow White" by Alice Callisto & Jeanette Rose

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(3/5 Stars)

Overall an enjoyable read!

This is a re-telling of Snow White, as indicated by the title, with a mixture of other familiar fairytale characters. The King is looking for a new Queen and has invited all eligible princesses and ladies of the kingdom to come to his castle. One of these ladies is Azura, a woman practising Dark Magic to get what she wants, and she wants to become the new Queen. The King's daughter, Snow, and the Evil Queen in the making, Azura, find that they get along very well. In fact, they're both instantly drawn to each other; Both dreaming of the others' kiss.

About the characters; I like what Callisto and Rose have done with Azura and Snow. They're very interesting women with motives behind their actions, but I sometimes felt a lack of depth to them. I would have liked to get to know them properly, learning what it is that fuels their desires and fears, what made them the people they are when the story begins in chapter one. Don't get me wrong, we get that to a certain extent, I just felt like some decisions they made along the line was rushed or even slightly out of character. At least according to the information I've been presented with on the pages, or rather the lack thereof.

As for the setting; The story is just scratching on the surface of what could have been done with this idea. Granted, this is only the first book of an upcoming series, so they might have left out details on purpose, but the reader would really benefit from a more world building. It's an interesting world and I enjoyed reading about it, but it left me wanting for more detail. The last 20 percent of the book is one of the main examples for this. I won't spoil for any future readers, but I will say that there were definitely scenes that could (and possibly even should) have been written, rather than skipped over and and quickly told within a few sentences on the next page. Rather dissappointing when you've gotten to the culminating point and feel robbed of valuable information, such as intriguing world building.

Having said all of this; I enjoyed reading it and I think that's probably the reason that I feel like I wanted more than what the pages offered. And in quite a short book, just over 200 pages, Callisto and Rose could have afforded to treat us to more elaborate descriptions of their otherwise lovely story.

---> Any potential reader should also be aware of that this book contains explicit sex scenes and a suicide attempt.

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