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Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige
2.0

I received a free digital copy from the author/publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest feedback.

Snow has lived in a mental asylum ever since she was a young girl and attempted to walk through a mirror. When one day, Snow’s boyfriend Bale gets pulled through to another world by a mysterious stranger, Snow follows and finds out she’s a princess…with the power to control snow. And it’s up to her to not only save Bale, but the rest of her land from a crazy king.

It took me a while to get into this story and unfortunately this isn’t one I ever really felt myself invested in either. I had no connection with Snow and as a character, I didn’t particularly like her. She was very hard to warm to and I thought she seemed fickle, judgemental and oftentimes a bit cruel as well.Sometimes characters are so unlikable you end up liking them anyways but this wasn’t the case for Snow. She also had a major problem with thinking that everyone wanted to kiss her and deciding on what guy she actually liked.

There are a lot of fairytale elements in this book from the Snow White theme, to Alice Through the Looking-Glass and The Snow Queen. But even though I normally like all those kind of elements in books and how they take from the classic stories we know and love, this one ended up making me feel like I was reading a story I already knew about even though, realistically, I could tell myself this was a brand new story with some good twists and turns.

This book unfortunately just wasn’t one for me I think and it made me feel a bit slumpy sometimes and a drag to read. I do think it could be perfect for people who love fairytale-retellings, I think I just didn’t click with it personally as overall the writing was good and the story detailed.