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A "Snow Queen" Retelling | Stealing Snow (Stealing Snow # 1) by Danielle Paige

28260524  Title: Stealing Snow


Author: Danielle Paige

Series: Stealing Snow Book One

Genre: Young Adult Fairy Tale Retelling

Release Date: September 20th, 2016

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Edition: Audiobook

Rating: 5 Stars

Why I Read/Listened to the Book: I've been meaning to get to Danielle's books for a while and this seemed like a good start.

Synopsis: First kisses sometimes wake slumbering princesses, undo spells, and spark happily ever afters.

Mine broke Bale.

Seventeen-year-old Snow has spent her life locked in Whittaker Psychiatric—but she isn’t crazy. And that’s not the worst of it. Her very first kiss proves anything but innocent…when Bale, her only love, turns violent.

Despite Snow knowing that Bale would never truly hurt her, he is taken away—dashing her last hope for any sort of future in the mental ward she calls home. With nowhere else to turn, Snow finds herself drawn to a strange new orderly who whispers secrets in the night about a mysterious past and a kingdom that’s hers for the taking—if only she can find her way past the iron gates to the Tree that has been haunting her dreams.

Beyond the Tree lies Algid, a land far away from the real world, frozen by a ruthless king. And there too await the River Witch, a village boy named Kai, the charming thief Jagger, and a prophecy that Snow will save them all.


Review: This was amazing! "The Snow Queen" is one of my favorite fairy tales and this retelling of it was just phenomenal in so many ways! Snow is an amazing main character and I don't blame her one bit for the way she was. Seriously, the girl has reasons for being the way she is. There were times that Snow got to be a little bratty or complained too much, but then again she did spend most of her life in a psychiatric hospital. I wasn't expecting the way things went down near the last half of the book, but it was just amazing. I cannot wait to find out what happens next!

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