That’s always going to be the general arc here. Snow White fights the Evil Queen and gets the throne.

Redwine does a fantastic job of completely turning retellings on their head. There are a lot of other excellent elements about this retelling, too. I literally started yelling out loud when I got to the dragons in the book, and my dad was like ? and I was like “THIS WAS ALREADY GREAT BUT NOW DRAGONS? I AM IN LOVE.” And not just ahhhhh oh no run it’s a dragon we must slay it, but seven FRIENDLY dragons that ally themselves with Lorelei and help her fight back against the Evil Queen. Oh hi, also, I wrote a post last week about why dragons are the best mythical creature ever! Well count me shocked and awed, I gave this five stars, and I’ll definitely admit that at least one of those stars was purely because the seven dwarves became seven DRAGONS. I originally bought The Traitor Prince first on accident, and I was so bummed because what if I didn’t like the first one? I already owned the third, so I was going to have to read the two leading up to it. Lorelai isn’t a main character by any stretch of the imagination in the rest of the series, she’s not even really a side character, but you do see her in passing.īut oh heck, this retelling. Thus, while you definitely can read these in any order, there are all these tiny little things that are so much more fun if you read them in order. She’s not just a princess on the run anymore. In The Shadow Queen, we’re introduced to the character playing Snow–Lorelai Diederich–and, by the time we get to the second book in the series, well. Now, the argument is that you can read these in any order, and while that is true, you’re definitely not going to miss any big plot points if you just want to skip to Cinderella or something, there are a lot of little things that you’ll miss.

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