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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Bashardoust, Melissa. Book - 2017 Teen Book / Fiction / Fantasy / Bashardoust, Melissa, Teen Fiction / Bashardoust, Melissa 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.3 out of 5

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"At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she'll have to become a stepmother. Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen's image, at her father's order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather be like her fierce and regal stepmother, Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories, displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred, and Lynet must decide what to do--and who to be--to win back the only mother she's ever known...or else defeat her once and for all. Entwining the stories of both Lynet and Mina in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all, while the other must lose everything--unless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story"-- Provided by publisher.

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A Female-Positive Snow White submitted by lcbuday on August 19, 2018, 1:40pm "If they love you for anything, it will be for your beauty."

At sixteen, motherless Mina learns that when she was very young, her cruel, cunning magician father replaced her failing heart with one made of glass. Believing her father when he tells her that she is incapable of loving or being loved, she sets out to win power and regard with what she has been told is her only asset- her beauty. Nearly two decades later, Mina is queen of the realm... and stepmother to sixteen-year-old Lynet, a princess who lives in the shadow of her dead mother, the beloved Emilia, ignorant of the fact that she is not Emilia's true daughter, but a creation of snow and blood fashioned to resemble the late queen perfectly. Mina and Lynet's connection, tenuous though it may have been at the beginning, has grown strong throughout the years- they are family. But with Lynet creeping ever closer to adulthood, and the men in their lives trying to tear them apart and play them off each other, and the muddy ramifications of their magical natures becoming ever more consequential... well, Mina and Lynet's bond is in for the test of a lifetime.

This novel is a fairy-tale retelling in the absolute best sense: it clearly draws from the source material in pertinent ways, while still remaining fresh. Both main characters are rich and relatable. While Mina, as many other reviewers have commented, is a delightfully complex near-antiheroine, I was also deeply touched by the less morally gray Lynet, whose struggle to define herself as an individual while attempting to placate both of her warring parents was believable and poignant. "Girls Made of Snow and Glass" also grapples with the question of what exactly it means to be your mother's daughter- or your father's daughter- something that I don't think we see nearly enough in genre fiction. Most importantly, I think, this book exquisitely depicts the complexity of female relationships in a world that is actively working to undermine those relationships... demonstrating yet again exactly how pertinent genre fiction can be to real life.

Girls Made of Snow and Glass submitted by lstorc on August 31, 2019, 11:37pm Girls Made of Snow and Glass is a compelling retelling of Snow White. The author takes an interesting approach at understanding the characters' perspectives.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Flatiron Books, 2017.
Year Published: 2017
Description: 375 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781250077738

SUBJECTS
Stepmothers -- Fiction.
Queens -- Fiction.
Magic -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.