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

3.0

I think this was a lovely book, but I will never find of Wrede's book that does the same thing for me that Dealing with Dragons once did. This book, like Mairelon the Magician, did not have villains that inspired fear or respect. Also like Mairelon, it seemed a comedy of errors, where all the characters stumble across one another at the end, and bad guys are revealed, revelations are made, etc. There was little suspense, because I was never concerned for the protagonists. Usually I'm a patient reader, content to comfortably lie back and wait for idiocy and mayhem to unfold, but I enjoyed this book less because Wrede's usual cast of intriguing characters were lacking and so there was nothing to make up for the lack of suspense. *sigh* I will keep reading her books though, because Princess Cimorene was my idol as a little girl, and she was a good one too, and I keep hoping I'll meet someone like her again in Wrede's stories.