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Mirror, Mirror by Ann Aguirre

1 review

greymalkin's review

dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Excellent gothic story. The Snow White references were more easter eggs than the actual fairytale, but I didn't mind once I realized that I should stop looking for the fairytale.  If anything this is a fairytale retelling of Rebecca or Jane Eyre, with the "young woman gets married to someone and enters house with mysterious and creepy things going on".

I liked the main character and enjoyed the way that she didn't always fall into the annoying tropes of lazier books. 

Nothing was a huge twist or shock, but that's not the point in gothic novels, the horror is in the dread and fear throughout the story.

 

I've been very much enjoying this series and look forward to the third one!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Alcoholism, Death, and Death of parent

Minor: Torture