The Wildest Things Published by St. Martin's Publishing Group on February 25, 2025 Genres: Young Adult Fiction / Fantasy / Dark Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction / Horror, Young Adult Fiction / Romance / LGBTQ
Pages: 320
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In this sapphic Snow White retelling, if Snow is to save her kingdom from being ravaged by the Blight, she’ll have to kill the Evil Queen’s daughter...if she doesn’t fall in love with her first.
When her glass coffin unexpectedly shatters, Snow White awakens to anything but a dream. The land is rotting. The animals have mutated. In the twenty years that have passed since Snow bit into the poisoned apple, the kingdom of Roanfrost has transformed from a luscious wild land to a blight-ravaged nightmare. In search of answers and a way to restore her kingdom to its former glory, Snow sets out on a dangerous journey that will test the strength she never knew she had.
Friends will become foes.
New alliances will form.
The Queen with the blood red lips will stop at nothing to seize her power as well as her heart.
If Snow has any chance to survive and restore not only her kingdom, but all of Garedenne, her only option is to become the Seasonkeeper and access the life-giving magic that will heal the plague. But the path to becoming the Seasonkeeper is more treacherous than she could ever imagine—because the wild things have awakened and Snow’s darker impulses yearn to set them free.
Review:
The Wildest Things by Andrea Hannah is a sapphic retelling where Snow White has reawakened after 20 years in her glass coffin but not by proper love’s kiss, instead by a forest that is hungering for its keeper to balance the world out. While Snow White has been slumbering the world, she knows a blight has destroyed it due to the evil queen and her daughter assuming they can be the keepers of the land. Now that Snow White is back, she is determined to set things right, but can she survive the crazy animals who are twisted, the dying land, and what has happened to the seven dwarfs who are now twisted and desperate trying to survive in this cruel world? In some ways, I found this to be a refreshing take on Snow White. We get two POVs: Snow White and the Famour Mirror. I found it very dark in places where Snow encountered various animals who used to be her friends, the huntsman, and the originality of the seven dwarfs, who are down to three. The Wildest Things will give you an original, deliciously dark tale and keep you guessing how it will all play out.
About Andrea Hannah
Andrea Hannah is the author of non-fiction and novels for young adults. She teaches creatives all over the globe and writes everything from fierce modern fairytales to horoscopes (she’s a Gemini). Her work has appeared in Bustle, Elite Daily, Reader’s Digest, Thrive Global, HuffPost, and Mslexia Magazine. Though her novels trend toward the dark and mysterious, she has also written for My Little Pony comics and created a tarot deck for Marvel’s Agatha All Along
Ooh, this one sounds really good, and I love that cover! Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Great review!
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