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Girls Made of Snow and Glass

Audiobook
1 of 1 copy available
1 of 1 copy available

"Narrator Jennifer Ikeda's pacing adds drama and intrigue to this twist on the classic Snow White story...listeners will enjoy this fresh take on a traditional tale that is filled with magic and strong female characters who must become allies rather than rivals." — AudioFile Magazine
Breakout author Melissa Bashardoust delivers a feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairy tale.

Enchanting and empowering, this magical new audiobook is an updated version of the classic tale.
At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone—has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first time, Mina forms a plan: win the king's heart with her beauty, become queen, and finally know love. The only catch is that she'll have to become a stepmother.
Fifteen-year-old Lynet looks just like her late mother, and one day she discovers why: a magician created her out of snow in the dead queen's image, at her father's order. But despite being the dead queen made flesh, Lynet would rather be like her fierce and regal stepmother, Mina. She gets her wish when her father makes Lynet queen of the southern territories, displacing Mina. Now Mina is starting to look at Lynet with something like hatred, and Lynet must decide what to do—and who to be—to win back the only mother she's ever known...or else defeat her once and for all.
Entwining the stories of both Lynet and Mina in the past and present, Girls Made of Snow and Glass traces the relationship of two young women doomed to be rivals from the start. Only one can win all, while the other must lose everything—unless both can find a way to reshape themselves and their story.
"In Girls Made of Snow and Glass, Melissa Bashardoust has given us exquisite displays of magic, complex mother-daughter relationships, and gloriously powerful women triumphing in a world that does not want them to be powerful. A gorgeous, feminist fairy tale."
—Traci Chee, New York Times bestselling author of The Reader
"Girls Made of Snow and Glass is like reading a particularly wonderful and vivid dream, complete with imaginative magic, delightful characters, and beautiful language. Melissa Bashardoust's debut novel is everything a fairy tale should be."
—Jodi Meadows, New York Times bestselling coauthor of My Lady Jane

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 3, 2017
      In Bashardoust’s debut, a richly written rethinking of Snow White, Princess Lynet and her stepmother, Queen Mina, fight the fates imposed by their fathers. When Mina was small, her sorcerer father, Gregory, replaced her failing heart with a glass one. Gregory claims that without a heartbeat, Mina is unlovable; to disprove him, she marries the widowed King Nicholas and earns the adoration of a kingdom. Her reign as queen is only temporary, though: when Nicholas’s daughter, Lynet, turns 16, Nicholas grants her rule over Mina’s territory. Lynet ponders declining the power transfer, but then overhears Mina plotting against her. Further complicating matters is Lynet’s discovery that she wasn’t born but was conjured from snow in the late Queen Emilia’s image at her father’s request, leading a horrified Lynet to flee the castle. A romantic subplot involving Lynet and a young surgeon named Nadia adds further drama and tension as Bashardoust thoughtfully reflects on the complicated nature of the stepdaughter/stepmother relationship while exploring agency, individuality, love, and free will. Ages 12–up. Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff, DeFiore and Company.

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Narrator Jennifer Ikeda's pacing adds drama and intrigue to this twist on the classic Snow White story. When the king's wife passes away, he enlists the help of a magician to create a child made out of snow that perfectly replicates his late wife. As the child, Lynet, starts to realize the truth of her creation, she sets out to find her own path. Meanwhile her stepmother, Mina, also created by the magician and made of glass, takes her place as queen when the king dies. Now both women need to decide who is the rightful ruler. Listeners will enjoy this fresh take on a traditional tale that is filled with magic and strong female characters who must become allies rather than rivals. M.D. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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  • English

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  • Lexile® Measure:920
  • Text Difficulty:4-5

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