This overly decadent novel has its good and bad points. It straddles the line between classic snow white fairy tale and historical farce, not quite blending the two but awkwardly searching for something that ultimately wasn't there. Unfortunately after reading "Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister" I have come to expect more from this author. The novel is interesting and entertaining enough but the reader doesn't develop any empathy for the characters. Bianca (our Italian/Spanish Snow White) never really develops into a woman and is kept a blithering startled child the entire novel. I liked how the Apple was altered to have come from the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden which gave the… Read more
