A review by marshmallowbooks
Snow White and Rose Red by Patricia C. Wrede

3.0

This is based on a fairy tale I had never heard before. The actual fairy tale is told in snippets at the beginning of each chapter, so you get the expanded story along with the tale from which it was developed. I enjoyed the story, told from many points of view, and covering 16th century England (as opposed to Germany, home of the Brothers' Grimm who wrote the tale) and an adjacent fairy realm. I could have done without the language of the times, though. The thees and thous and dosts and whilsts wore on me. And I have yet to figure out why it was the trend then to use an in place of if sometimes. But getting around the language wasn't too daunting of a task to keep me from finishing the story.