A cute retelling of the classic fairy tell "Snow White," This teen novel is fun and inventive. Some fairy tale retellings can be young, cliche, or boring; this book is none of these. It is interesting and new with an unexpected twist that is sure to encourage readers to become a fan of the retelling genre. This book's writing style was a little too simple for me, but it would be perfect for a 11-14 year old. ( )

This book started out ok, but about 100 pgs into it went from fairy tale to weird fantasy with creatures that are half-human and half-animal called 'the lonely ones', who in the classic Snow White are replacing the dwarves. I wasn't really expecting to meet seven dwarves in this book, but the creatures were completely unexpected and just didn't fit with the story in my opinion. You may like this if you want an out-of-the ordinary fairy tale, but I wouldn't recommend it if your looking for good old classic fairytale romances with some new twists, like most the other 'Once Upon a Time' books are. ----maybe I'll try it again later but it just didn't take this time around. ( )

Well done. A little strange, but well done. ( )

This is not your usual retelling of Snow White: her childhood swings between wonderful and horrible, her dwarves aren't dwarves, and her prince isn't a prince. Set in the 1800s, Snow White is a Welsh duchess rather than a princess, and she runs not to a forest but to London. She charms her companions there, but when her evil stepmother gets her, she first has to regain her life and then decide just what happily ever after means after the life she's led so far. ( )

Jessica's mother died when Jessica was born and her father remarries. she has to deal with snobby sisters and an evil stepmother who is making her brother-like friend, Allen, do some strange magic-science experiments. stepmother is trying to have a baby, but she is too old, so she trys to use jessica to have another one. she has a baby's skull, rubies, a lock of a maden's hair, but she needs a beating heart. gueass who she trys to get it out of?
Jessica's (commonly known as Snow because of her pale skin) friend Allen does the best to tell warn her, since evil stepmother gave him a necklace that prevented him of telling anything that happened in the lab. she gets a clue and runs away to England now fully known as Snow. Snow gets so tired of walking, she sleeps in the first comfortable spot she finds, which was in an ally. but this was a spot were the half cat-half girl. she and other animal-human creatures take her to thier hidding place. she lives with them and becomes part of them. meanwhile, evil stepmother finds out with her place, so she sents her maid to trick her into coming to see her. evil stepmother. so she goes. and she finds that she had mental disablilty. and she belived her. so when they went to E.S's apartment, she hooks her up to a machine and it made her sleep for as long time.
soon after that, Ravev, half human half raven and Cat came and took her. they put her in a glass case. they discussed on what to do, and they decided to go and search for Allen. a little after Snow ran away, Allen did too. Allen knew them because of the magic mirror E.S had.
he went and saw Snow, and he told them about the machanic man, i think (I dont remember!) and he put together an electric machine. they took the machine to snow and woke her up with a jolt of electricity.
long story short, snow marries raven
AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER (duh...) ( )