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A review by dame_samara
Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust
5.0
Women Supporting Women!
Honestly when I read that this was a "feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale" I took it with a grain of salt. Even having read Bashardoust's other work "Girl, Serpent, Thorn". I wasn't sure I'd be in love with this book but I fell head over heels in with this book. I will in the future be purchasing this book for my collection to ensure that my little sister has the opportunity to read it.
I feel like even as an adult, I still live in a world where all to often supportive female companionships are not depicted often, if at all. So watching the companionship between Mina and Lynet, ebb and flow as it develops was amazing.
The found the parallels between characters incredibly interesting. Along with the development of characters, both main characters and side characters.
The underplayed theme that meant so much to me was that Family is who you make it. Mena was Lynet's mother was because she cared for and nurtured her rather then trying to stuff her into the place left by a dead woman.
Lynet's thoughts on whether the mother that her father depicted and tried to mold her into was the way her mother really was. That all she ever heard her mother described as was, Beautiful and Delicate. When in reality no one is just those two things, people are much more complicated than that.
In retrospect, Amelia feels like a reference to how demur Snow White from the Disney version feels.
I feel like how fed up Mena was with The King's treatment of her daughter was really underplayed. And that the boiling point was shown in her asking "Don't tell you mean to marry her?" in regards to Lynet taking her mothers place. Like this was a deep cut just generally. But especially given the context of this conversation, with her father pushing her to become more like her mother.
Honestly when I read that this was a "feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale" I took it with a grain of salt. Even having read Bashardoust's other work "Girl, Serpent, Thorn". I wasn't sure I'd be in love with this book but I fell head over heels in with this book. I will in the future be purchasing this book for my collection to ensure that my little sister has the opportunity to read it.
I feel like even as an adult, I still live in a world where all to often supportive female companionships are not depicted often, if at all. So watching the companionship between Mina and Lynet, ebb and flow as it develops was amazing.
The found the parallels between characters incredibly interesting. Along with the development of characters, both main characters and side characters.
The underplayed theme that meant so much to me was that Family is who you make it. Mena was Lynet's mother was because she cared for and nurtured her rather then trying to stuff her into the place left by a dead woman.
Spoiler
Lynet's thoughts on whether the mother that her father depicted and tried to mold her into was the way her mother really was. That all she ever heard her mother described as was, Beautiful and Delicate. When in reality no one is just those two things, people are much more complicated than that.
In retrospect, Amelia feels like a reference to how demur Snow White from the Disney version feels.
I feel like how fed up Mena was with The King's treatment of her daughter was really underplayed. And that the boiling point was shown in her asking "Don't tell you mean to marry her?" in regards to Lynet taking her mothers place. Like this was a deep cut just generally. But especially given the context of this conversation, with her father pushing her to become more like her mother.