Language: PG13 (17 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: PG13 (alcohol use, scary elements, kissing, and innuendo); Violence: PG13 (animal cruelty, assault, corpses, fantasy violence, blood and gore, suicide, and murder)
BUYING ADVISORY: HS - ADVISABLE
APPEALS TO: SEVERAL
Princess Sophia (16yo) is not strong enough to be a ruler— she’s too soft, too trusting, too compassionate. If Sophia receives the crown, everything her stepmother, the queen, has built will fall, so the queen tells her huntsman to kill the princess and bring back her heart. And thus begins the princess’s quest to reclaim her heart.
The narrator of the story breaks the fourth wall and switches randomly through first, second, and third person perspectives. Some of the chapters feel only loosely connected to the story, and I can’t tell if the epilogue is meant to lead to a sequel or not. And yet, with all those technical issues, I liked the story itself. Donnelly sometimes gets more caught up in painting pictures of the mood more than in explaining what’s going on, like adding a dash of poetry to the book. I love her spin on Snow White and the connections she makes between fear, love, pain, courage, and heart.
Reviewer: Carolina Johnson
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