![]() Before totally giving in to the demon's control, Snow manages to leave a piece of herself behind in the form of a magically created "sister" named Gerta who shares many of Snow's memories, mostly because she is the product of Snow's imagination. So in this book the queen finally succumbs to her long infirmity, and by trying to save her life in some fashion, Snow accidentally shatters her mother's old magic mirror and lets loose a terrible demon on the world who possesses her and starts wreaking emotional and physical terror on the world. I can't say any more than that without spoiling some things, so. ![]() It is also true that while I can see all of that up there, it doesn't mean I am happy about the way it turned out, or that the ending presented here made me feel emotionally satisfied. ![]() It continues the trend of taking fairy-tale stories and reshaping them to give their characters agency. It has nice dialogue and is exciting and terribly stressful to read. It successfully wraps up character arcs and themes set in place all the way back in the first book. The thing about this book, which is the fourth and last in Hines' Princess quartet, is that it's a smart, well-written ending to the series. ![]() We definitely weren't speaking for a while, and I got kind of pouty and shouty with it. Hines book I've ever read, and that holds true for The Snow Queen's Shadow. I mean, I GET it, but I don't have to be HAPPY about it. ![]()
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