While she has her nurse and her ladies-in-waiting, they only spend time with her because they have to. That child, Coira, spends her life raised in isolation. Thanks to the trauma of this forced pregnancy that leads to her being forced to marry her rapist, the girl Arpazia grows into a cold, distant woman who is unwilling to bond with the child she never wanted but was forced to have. Unlike in the fairytale, she’s Snow White’s biological mother and conceives her daughter when she’s raped at fourteen by the king of the neighboring kingdom. Told from two points of view, we first see the life (and death) of the “Evil Queen,” Arpazia. The book is a darker retelling of Snow White, but with a Hades and Persephone twist. I was, interestingly enough, reading Tanith’s Lee 2000 novel White As Snow.
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