Melissa’s Review: Stealing Snow by Danielle Paige

 

Stealing Snow
written by Danielle Paige
published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens, 2016

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Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Did I enjoy this book: I mean, if by “enjoy” you mean “binge read all afternoon while letting the children overdose on screen time,” then YES. ALL THE YES. I mean sure, the book has its flaws (mainly, how does a girl who spends her formative years in an insane asylum seamlessly adjust to an alternate, magical reality so gosh darn quickly?), but wow. I fell in love with this book, and I can’t wait to see what Snow does next. Hurry, Ms. Paige! Hurry!

 

GOLDEN LINES

“It is possible with enough time and imagination to break your own heart.”

“Sometimes we have to steal our future.”

“And maybe, just maybe, it didn’t matter how you looked going into battle. It just mattered that you went.”

 

 

Would I recommend it: Yes, yes, yes!

 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: 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.