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We don’t easily tire of the iconography that comes with bitten apples and glass coffins.īut what we often lose in casting and recasting these stories are the elements that drew us to them in the first place: the timeless longings and fears that pop up again and again and don’t wish to be buried under slick, modern trappings. These reimaginings are everywhere: from Angela Carter’s classics to the somewhat unwieldy TV universe of ABC’s Once Upon a Time, fulfilling our need to throw all the witches and princes together just to see what happens. We have a perennial fascination with fairy tales and long to see them turned inside out to fit a new age. Girls Made of Snow and Glass joins a long line of fairy tale pastiches, following the grooves of old folklore and the inner depths of classic characters. What follows is a gripping, dark, and ultimately heart-affirming retelling of the rivalry between Snow White and her wicked queen, but this time that wickedness is a wild longing-in both women―to be loved and seen for who they really are. Shaped by their fathers and creators, they are now searching for the shape their own lives will take. Neither is entirely human they were made to be more creature than girl, magical automatons who cannot feel cold or know love. Princess Lynet, the heroine of Melissa Bashardoust’s debut novel, Girls Made of Snow and Glass, has skin made of snow-her stepmother, Mina, a heart of glass. Review | Girls Made of Snow and Glass, by Melissa
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